Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

23670

Able Seaman

Morriss, George Bradshaw

 

Australian

Royal Australian Navy

H.M.A.S. Perth

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1858

Force:

Captured Java and sent to Kuching were they joined 'E' Force to arrive Sandakan April 1943.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

 
 

Date of Death:

1945/05/29

Place of Death:

Sandakan Number 1 Camp

Buried:

Sandakan Number 1 Compound (Cemetery used slit trenches, bodies moved in May).

 

Loved Ones

Son of Mrs. Myrtle Morriss, of Frankston, Victoria, Australia

 

Memorial

Spec. Memorial. 20. D. 1.

LABUAN WAR CEMETERY

 

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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Designed and Maintained by Ron Taylor.

 

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