Le Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

NX36469

Private

Ledwidge, Frank Bartle

Australian

Australian Infantry

A.I.F. 2/19 Bn.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1781

Force:

E - left Singapore 28th March 1943, arrived Kuching 1st April. Some senior officers and OR's stay, the rest sent to Sandakan.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/03/12

Place of Death:

23m Sandakan

Buried:

Body recovered and buried at Labaun Cemetery.

Loved Ones

Son of Michael and Rose Ann Ledwidge; husband of Mabel Veronica Ledwidge, of Merriwagga, New South Wales, Australia

Memorial

20. E. 10.

LABUAN WAR CEMETERY

Escaped. 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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