Bi Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

QX16347

Private

Bignell, Kenneth William

Australian

Australian Army Service Corps

A.I.F. 1. Coy.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

413

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:

1945/06/11

Place of Death:

Taunintin

Buried:

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

Loved Ones

Son of Frederick and Annie May Bignell; husband of Eunice Mary Bignell, of Cooroy, Queensland

Memorial

14. C. 3.

LABUAN WAR CEMETERY

1st Sandakan march (9 groups leaving Sandakan between 29th January and the 6th February 1945). Japanese recorded death from Acute Enteritus.

“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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