Ma Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

1809130

Gunner

Mason, William

British

Royal Artillery

H.Q. 48 Lt. A.A. Regt.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2716

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/03/05

Place of Death:

Believed to be Sandakan

Buried:

No known grave

Loved Ones

Son of William and Eleanor Mason, of Standish, Lancashire

Memorial

Column 25.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

Mentioned in Death Roll (Compiled by the Japanese 9th Division, some entries are believed to be fabricated). 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

KEW

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