Ve Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

1717709

Gunner

Venton, Charles Leslie

British

Royal Artillery

242 Bty., 48 Lt. A.A. Regt.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2951

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/02/06

Place of Death:

Believed to be Sandakan

Buried:

Body recovered and buried at Labaun Cemetery

Loved Ones

Son of Walter and Beatrice Venton; husband of Lilian Kate Venton, of Truro, Cornwall

Memorial

V. A. 1.

LABUAN WAR CEMETERY

Evidence of prisoner found at Sandakan. 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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