Ba Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

QX10572

Gunner

Barker, John Henry

Australian

Royal Australian Artillery

A.I.F. 2/10 Fd. Regt.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

507

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:

1945/02/15

Place of Death:

2m east Tampias

Buried:

Buried beside the track where he died. (1st march).

Loved Ones

Son of Harry Francis and Margaret Barker, of Maryborough, Queensland

Memorial

Panel 2.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

Relic found by locals, could be found anywhere between Sandakan and Ranau. Japanese recorded death from Cardiac Beriberi.

“Keeping the Candle Burning”

Britain at War

Acknowledgements

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

‘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

In Memory of Fred Taylor and John Weedon
Designed and Maintained by Ron Taylor.

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