Ga Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

927421

Leading Aircraftman

Garrad, Eric Frederick

British

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2562

Force:

Royal Air Force - arrive at Sandakan from 8th to 18th April 1943.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/04/08

Place of Death:

Ranau Number 1 Camp (near airstrip)

Buried:

Ranau Number 1 Camp (Main Cemetery, used 16th March 1945 to 29th April 1945).

Loved Ones

Son of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Garrad, of Little Wakering, Essex

Memorial

Column 453.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

1st Sandakan march (9 groups leaving Sandakan between 29th January and the 6th February 1945). Japanese recorded death from Acute Enteritus.

“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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