Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

2357584

Lance Corporal

Humphreys, John Harry

 

British

Royal Corps of Signals

21 Lt. A.A. Regt., R.A. Sig. Sec.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2525

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

38

Date of Death:

1945/06/20

Place of Death:

Sandakan - Ranau, somewhere along the track

Buried:

No known grave.

 

Loved Ones

Son of Harry and Sarah Maud Eleanor Humphreys; husband of Alice Marjorie Humphreys, of East Finchley, Middlesex

 

Memorial

Column 43.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

 

Evidence of prisoner found at Sandakan. Japanese recorded death from Malaria. Lynette Silver has spelt the Surname as 'Humphries'.

 

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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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