Gr Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

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1560157

Bombardier

Grewcock, Laurence Henry

British

Royal Artillery

242 Bty., 48 Lt. A.A. Regt.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2262

Force:

British Army - arrive at Sandakan from 8th to 18th April 1943.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/02/13

Place of Death:

Believed to be Sandakan

Buried:

No known grave

Loved Ones

Memorial

Column 7.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

British Roll only (This is the only record found). Japanese recorded death from Malaria.

“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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Designed and Maintained by Ron Taylor.

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