Bo Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

NX43983

Private

Bowe, James Michael

Australian

Australian Army Ordnance Corps

A.I.F. 8 Div. Mobile L. of F.D. Unit.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1568

Force:

Left Singapore 7th July 1942 with 'B' Force, joined 'E' Force to Sandakan 1st April 1943.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/05/12

Place of Death:

Sandakan Number 1 Camp

Buried:

Sandakan Number 2 Compound (Cemetery on east side of track near boiler house, used from March untill May 1945).

Loved Ones

Son of Jeremiah and Catherine Bowe, of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales

Memorial

Panel 27.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

Served as Anderson. Died after being put into cage. 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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