Ri Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

NX4415

Private

Richards, Roderick Moncrieff

Australian

Australian Army Medical Corps

A.I.F. 2/10 Field Amb

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1198

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:

1945/02/11

Place of Death:

East Tampias

Buried:

Body recovered and buried at Labaun Cemetery. Known to have been killed.

Loved Ones

Son of Mortimer Delaforce Richards and Marion Bradshaw Richards, of Neutral Bay, New South Wales Australia

Memorial

7. A. 3.

LABUAN WAR CEMETERY

1st Sandakan march (9 groups leaving Sandakan between 29th January and the 6th February 1945). Japanese recorded death recorded from Beriberi.

“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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