Sa Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

1374118

Aircraftman 2nd Class

Sands, Arthur McGeoch

British

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

271 Squadron

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2861

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/08/03

Place of Death:

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

Buried:

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

Loved Ones

Memorial

Column 456.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

False Date of Death.

“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

In Memory of Fred Taylor and John Weedon
Designed and Maintained by Ron Taylor.

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