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Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

2346404

Signalman

Tomkinson, David

British

Royal Corps of Signals

27 Line Sec.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2921

Force:

British Army - arrive at Sandakan from 8th to 18th April 1943.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/03/02

Place of Death:

Paginatan

Buried:

Paginatan Cemetery

Loved Ones

Son of Fred and Elizabeth Tomkinson, of Llandilo, Carmarthenshire

Memorial

Column 45.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

1st Sandakan march (9 groups leaving Sandakan between 29th January and the 6th February 1945). 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

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

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