Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

NX52835

Private

Johnson, Sydney Ronald

 

Australian

Australian Army Medical Corps

A.I.F. 2/10 Fd. Amb.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

878

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

28

Date of Death:

1945/02/11

Place of Death:

Mandorin

Buried:

No known grave.

 

Loved Ones

Son of Alexander and Christina Elizabeth Johnson; husband of Enid Nellie Johnson, of Parramatta, New South Wales

 

Memorial

Panel 26.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

1st Sandakan march (9 groups leaving Sandakan between 29th January and the 6th February 1945). Japanese recorded death from Malaria and Beriberi. (official date 28/02/45 (PRESUMED), New information obtained from 'coRelic found at Ranau. upted names' list

 

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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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