Sh Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

SX4977

Private

Sherman, Murray Orme

Australian

Australian Army Service Corps

A.I.F. 2/2 Res. M.T. Coy.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1901

Force:

E - left Singapore 28th March 1943, arrived Kuching 1st April. Some senior officers and OR's stay, the rest sent to Sandakan.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/03/16

Place of Death:

Sandakan Number 1 Camp

Buried:

Sandakan Number 1 Compound (Cemetery on east side of track leading to camp, used untill March 1945).

Loved Ones

Son of Charles Henry and Margaret Sherman; husband of Gertrude Eileen Mary Sherman of Glenelg, South Australia

Memorial

Panel 24.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

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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