Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

VX22839

Corporal

Lancaster, William James

B.A., Dip. Ed

Australian

Australian Army Service Corps

A.I.F. 2 Coy.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

262

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

46

Date of Death:

1945/06/07

Place of Death:

Sandakan - Ranau, somewhere along the track

Buried:

No known grave.

 

Loved Ones

Son of William James White Lancaster and Malinda Lancaster; husband of Dorothy Erica Lancaster, of Glen Iris, Victoria

 

Memorial

Panel 21.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

2nd Sandakan march (Leaving Sandakan April 1945). Japanese recorded death recorded from Beriberi.

 

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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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