Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

VX50079

Private

Thonder, William Charles

 
 

Australian

Australian Army Medical Corps

 
 

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1330

Force:

B - left Singapore 7th July 1942,on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, arrived Sandakan 18th July.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

27

Date of Death:

1945/06/19

Place of Death:

Believed to be Sandakan

Buried:

No known grave, believed to be Sandakan

 

Loved Ones

Son of William Thomas Thonder and Ruby Francis Thonder; husband of Edna Florence Thonder, of West Brunswick, Victoria

 

Memorial

Panel 27.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

Mentioned in Death Roll (Compiled by the Japanese 9th Division, some entries are believed to be fabricated). 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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