Ty Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

NX71702

Private

Tyrrell, Reginald Charles

Australian

Australian Headquarters

A.I.F. H.Q. 22 Infantry Brigade.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1945

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:

1945/07/23

Place of Death:

Ranau Number 1 Jungle Camp (near Sinarut)

Buried:

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

Loved Ones

Son of Charles and Violet Jane Tyrrell, of West Ryde, New South Wales

Memorial

Panel 9.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

2nd Sandakan march (Leaving Sandakan April 1945). Japanese recorded death from Acute Enteritus.

“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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