Mc Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

NX25571

Staff Sergeant

McDonald, William Baird

Australian

Australian Infantry

A.I.F. 2/18 Bn.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1539

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:

1945/08/13

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 (Main Cemetery, used from 10th July 1945). 2nd March.

Loved Ones

Son of Andrew and Sarah Ann McDonald; husband of Elizabeth Margaret McDonald, of Armidale, New South Wales

Memorial

Panel 9.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

False date of death.

“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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