Sa Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

543013

Leading Aircraftman

Sarginson, Joseph Edwin

British

Royal Air Force

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2868

Force:

Royal Air Force - Captured Java, arrive at Sandakan from 8th to 18th April 1943.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/02/09

Place of Death:

3 mile from Mandorin (60 mile from Sandakan)

Buried:

No known grave.

Loved Ones

Son of Timothy Sarginson, and of Ada E. Sarginson, of Mount Pleasant, Gateshead, Co. Durham

Memorial

Column 453.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

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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