Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

NX28552

Lance Bombardier

Gardner, Irwin Lane Gunstone

 

Australian

Royal Australian Artillery

A.I.F. 2/15 Field Regt.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

216

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

27

Date of Death:

1943/03/28

Place of Death:

Sandakan Number 1 Camp

Buried:

Body recovered and buried at Labaun Cemetery

 

Loved Ones

Son of Sydney Large Gardner and Florence Mona Gardner, of Aberdeen, New South Wales, Australia

 

Memorial

Q. AA. 8.

LABUAN WAR CEMETERY

 

Relic found at Sandakan.  Japanese recorded death from Peritonitis

 

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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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