Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

NX40332

Private

Reading, Thomas Archibald

 

Australian

Australian Infantry

A.I.F. 2/18 Bn.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1174

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

33

Date of Death:

1945/08/11

Place of Death:

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

Buried:

Ranau Number 2 Jungle Camp (Main Cemetery, used from 10th July 1945). Massacre site.

 

Loved Ones

Son of Alfred and Minnie May Reading; husband of Edna Irene Reading, of Kogarah, New South Wales

 

Memorial

Panel 11.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

False date of death.

 

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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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