Ba Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

NX68426

Private

Barrie, John

Australian

Australian Army Service Corps

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

Japanese POW

POW Number:

409

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:

1945/06/15

Place of Death:

Sandakan - Ranau, somewhere along the track

Buried:

Buried beside the track where he died. PoW dropped out of march. No known grave.

Loved Ones

Son of John and Margaret Barrie; husband of Marguerite Emily Barrie, of Reid, Canberra, A.C.T

Memorial

Panel 22.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

2nd Sandakan march (Leaving Sandakan April 1945). Japanese recorded death from Malaria.

“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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