Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

NX7941

Private

Oconnor, Reuben Michael

 
 

Australian

Australian Army Medical Corps

A.I.F. 2/10 Gen. Hospital

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1848

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:

22

Date of Death:

1945/06/15

Place of Death:

2m Melio (a staging post on the Melio River)

Buried:

Body recovered and buried at Labaun Cemetery

 

Loved Ones

Son of Reuben Berth O'Connor and Muriel Violet O'Connor, of Lismore, New South Wales, Australia

 

Memorial

Joint grave 21. A. 10.

LABUAN WAR CEMETERY

 

2nd Sandakan march (Leaving Sandakan April 1945). 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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