Wi Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

11052615

Gunner

Wilkinson, Joseph

British

Royal Artillery

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

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2963

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1944/12/21 - 9.40am

Place of Death:

Believed to be Sandakan

Buried:

No known grave

Loved Ones

Memorial

U. C. 8.

LABUAN WAR CEMETERY

Born 23rd November 1917. Japanese death certificate gives, contacted Malaria 1944/11/21, recorded death from Malaria 1944/12/21.

“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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