Mi Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

73787

Captain

Mills, James Francis Dawson

British

Royal Artillery

77 Heavy Anti-Aircarft Regiment.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2203

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/07/03

Place of Death:

Believed to be Sandakan

Buried:

No known grave

Loved Ones

Son of Francis and Annie Mills

Memorial

Column 2.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

1914/12/07 Born Beverley. Son of Francis and Annie Mills. Attended Bridlington School 1923-1928. Occupation Solicitor ay Crust, Todd, Mills and Co.. Transported with RA 1941 to Java. Believed to have been executed.

“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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