Oa Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

NX76223

Captain

Oakeshott, John Bernard

M.B., Ch.M.

Australian

Australian Army Medical Corps

A.I.F. 10 Gen. Hosp.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1493

Force:

E - left Singapore 28th March 1943, arrived Kuching 1st April. Some senior officers and OR's stay, the rest sent to Sandakan.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/08/27

Place of Death:

Ranau Number 2 Jungle Camp (near 110 mile peg, 5 mile south of Ranau)

Buried:

Body recovered and buried at Labaun Cemetery

Loved Ones

Son of George John and Fanny Marion Oakeshott; husband of Enid Kathleen Oakeshott, of Lismore, New South Wales.

Memorial

12. D. 8-12.

LABUAN WAR CEMETERY

2nd Sandakan march (Leaving Sandakan April 1945). Known to have been killed.

“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.

To Register please email me as below,
with your details & pictures if you have any.

Site Management

[Britain at War] [Roll of Honour] [Atrocities] [Sandakan] [O]