Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

1639343

Gunner

Barker, Maurice Edward

 

British

Royal Artillery

49 Bty., 48 Lt. A.A. Regt.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2392

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

34

Date of Death:

1945/04/16

Place of Death:

Believed to be Sandakan

Buried:

No known grave

 

Loved Ones

Husband of R. M. Barker, of Forest Gate, Essex

 

Memorial

Column 13.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

 

Mentioned in Death Roll (Compiled by the Japanese 9th Division, some entries are believed to be fabricated). Japanese recorded death from Malaria.

 

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“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

 

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