Ma Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

NX58549

Sergeant

Mann, Wesley Richard

Australian

Australian Army Medical Corps

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

Japanese POW

POW Number:

295

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/07/06

Place of Death:

Ranau Number 2 Jungle Camp (near 110 mile peg, 5 mile south of Ranau) (2nd March)

Buried:

Ranau Number 2 Jungle Camp (First Cemetery, near Japanese hut, used from 11th June to about the 9th July 1945).

Loved Ones

Son of Richard and Martha Olive Mann, of Arncliffe, New South Wales

Memorial

Panel 25.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

Relic found at Ranau. 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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