We Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

TX2961

Private

Webster, Alec George

Australian

Australian Infantry

A.I.F. 2/29 Bn.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1370

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/06/02

Place of Death:

Sandakan - Ranau, somewhere along the track

Buried:

Buried Buried beside the track where he died.

Loved Ones

Son of George and Lily Webster; husband of Dorothy Kathleen Webster, of Hobart, Tasmania

Memorial

Panel 16.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

2nd Sandakan march (Leaving Sandakan April 1945). Japanese recorded death from Beriberi and Ulcers.

“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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