Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

VX54364

Signalman

Stirling, Douglas Hugh

 

Australian

Australian Corps of Signals

A.I.F. 8 Div. Sigs.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

 
 

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:

19

Date of Death:

1945/07/15

Place of Death:

Sandakan Number 2 Camp (British moved from this camp to the Number 1 Camp about the 15 April 1945. Survivors were then moved back to a wired section of Number 2 Camp on 29 May 1945)

Buried:

Sandakan Number 4 Cemetery. Slit trenches near airfield. Where 23 were massacred.

 

Loved Ones

Son of Lancelot Hugh and Beatrice Stirling, of Blackburn, Victoria

 

Memorial

Panel 8.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

Served as Matson-Stirling, Donald. Known to have been killed. Japanese recorded death from Malaria.

 

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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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