Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

1367192

Aircraftman 2nd Class

McLellan, Robert Crosbie

 

British

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

 

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2707

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

39

Date of Death:

1945/01/03

Place of Death:

Believed to be Sandakan

Buried:

No known grave

 

Loved Ones

Son of John and Margaret Crosbie McLellan, of Glasgow; husband of Margaret H. McLellan, of Glasgow

 

Memorial

Column 430.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

 

British Roll only (This is the only record found). 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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