Ma Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

1826599

Gunner

Madeley, John William

British

Royal Artillery

21 Lt. A.A. Regt.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2721

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/04/12

Place of Death:

Ranau Number 1 Camp (near airstrip)

Buried:

Ranau Number 1 Camp (Main Cemetery, used 16th March 1945 to 29th April 1945).

Loved Ones

Son of John William and Alice Madeley; husband of Edith Madeley (nee McConkey), of Ardwick, Manchester

Memorial

Column 24.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

1st Sandakan march (9 groups leaving Sandakan between 29th January and the 6th February 1945). Evidence of prisoner found at Ranau. Japanese recorded death recorded from Beriberi.

“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

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