Pa Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

NX73060

Driver

Parsons, John William

Australian

Australian Army Service Corps

A.I.F. 2/3 Motor Amb. Coy.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1147

Force:

B - left Singapore 7th July 1942,on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, arrived Sandakan 18th July.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/07/12

Place of Death:

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

Buried:

Body recovered and buried at Labaun Cemetery

Loved Ones

Son of John William and Sarah Ann Parsons; husband of Doris Lovilla Parsons, of Broadmeadow, New South Wales, Australia

Memorial

16. C. 6.

LABUAN WAR CEMETERY

Relic found at Ranau. 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

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