Atrocities

Sandakan

 

Compiled from the ‘Java Index’, ‘Sandakan - A Conspiracy of Silence’

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

VX45352

Driver

Fitzpatrick, Francis James

 

Australian

Australian Army Service Corps

A.I.F. 4 Res. M.T. Coy.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

713

Force:

B - left Singapore 7th July 1942,on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, arrived Sandakan 18th July.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

45

Date of Death:

1945/08/05

Place of Death:

Ranau 2

Buried:

Ranau Number 2 Jungle Camp (Main Cemetery, used from 10th July 1945). Massacre site.

 

Loved Ones

Son of Terence Stephen and Mary Ellen Fitzpatrick; husband of Alice Jessie Fitzpatrick, of Pascoe Vale, Victoria

 

Memorial

Panel 22.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

2nd Sandakan march (Leaving Sandakan April 1945). Relic found at Ranau. False date of death.

 

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“Keeping the Candle Burning”

 

 

 

Britain at War

Acknowledgements:-

‘Sandakan - A Conspiracy of Silence’ by Lynette Ramsay Silver

‘The Last March’ by Don Wall

‘Kill the Prisoners’ by Don Wall

‘The Knights of Bushido’ by Lord Russell of Liverpool

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Java Index - Roll of Honour

KEW

 

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