Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

1051577

Leading Aircraftman

Maitland, Thomas

 

British

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

 

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2734

Force:

Royal Air Force - Captured Java, arrive at Sandakan from 8th to 18th April 1943.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

31

Date of Death:

1945/02/03

Place of Death:

Believed to be Sandakan

Buried:

Body recovered and buried at Labaun Cemetery

 

Loved Ones

Son of Thomas Wilson Maitland, and of Jane Maitland (nee Walton); husband of Moira Ashmore Maitland (nee Wilson), of Castleside, Co. Durham

 

Memorial

S. A. 16.

LABUAN WAR CEMETERY

 

Japanese recorded death from Acute Enteritus.

 

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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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