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Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

2361041

Signalman

Newton, Arthur Henry

British

Royal Corps of Signals

27 Line Sigs.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2758

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/04/14

Place of Death:

Believed to be Sandakan

Buried:

Body recovered and buried at Labaun Cemetery

Loved Ones

Son of Samuel and Hilda Irene Newton, of Portsmouth; grandson of Mrs. A. E. Lane, of Cosham, Hampshire

Memorial

T. C. 9.

LABUAN WAR CEMETERY

Japanese recorded death from Malaria.

“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

In Memory of Fred Taylor and John Weedon
Designed and Maintained by Ron Taylor.

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