Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

NX28980

Bombardier

McGee, William Andrew

 

Australian

Royal Australian Artillery

A.I.F. 2/15 Fd. Regt.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1540

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:

28

Date of Death:

1945/04/14

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 William James McGee and Verlie May McGee, of Willoughby, New South Wales; husband of Ellena Margaret McGee, of Willoughby, New South Wales

 

Memorial

Panel 3.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

Relic found at Ranau. Japanese recorded death from Malaria.

 

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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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