Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

NX68904

Driver

McCarthy, Leo

 

Australian

Australian Army Service Corps

A.I.F. 2/3 Motor Amb. Coy.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1039

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

44

Date of Death:

1945/03/02

Place of Death:

Paginatan (1st March)

Buried:

Paginatan Cemetery

 

Loved Ones

Son of John Weeks McCarthy and Florence McCarthy; husband of Adelina McCarthy, of Five Dock, New South Wales

 

Memorial

Panel 22.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

Relic found by locals, could be found anywhere between Sandakan and Ranau. 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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