Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

NX68850

Private

Wells, George David William

 

Australian

Australian Army Service Corps

A.I.F. 2/3 Motor Amb. Coy.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1387

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

43

Date of Death:

1945/07/05

Place of Death:

Ranau Number 2 Jungle Camp (near 110 mile peg, 5 mile south of Ranau)

Buried:

Ranau Number 2 Jungle Camp (First Cemetery, near Japanese hut, used from 11th June to about the 9th July 1945).

 

Loved Ones

Son of John and Augusta Louisa Sophia Wells; husband of Ivy Irene Wells, of Potts Point, New South Wales

 

Memorial

Panel 25.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

2nd Sandakan march (Leaving Sandakan April 1945). 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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