Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

WX10803

Private

Fotheringham, Thomas Rantoul

 

Australian

Australian Infantry

A.I.F. 2/4 M.G. Bn.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

715

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

24

Date of Death:

1945/06/07

Place of Death:

Murawatto

Buried:

No known grave.

 

Loved Ones

Son of John Rantoul Fotheringham and Annie Fotheringham, of West Perth, Western Australia

 

Memorial

Panel 18.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

2nd Sandakan march (Leaving Sandakan April 1945). Japanese recorded death recorded from Beriberi.

 

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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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