Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

 

Bombardier

Braithwaite, James Richard

 

Australian

Royal Australian Artillery

2/15th Field Regiment

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

 
 

Force:

 
 

Survived/Died:

Survived

Age:

 
 

Date of Death:

 
 

Place of Death:

 
 

Buried:

 
 

 

Loved Ones

 

 

Memorial

 

 

 

Escaped from Ranua on June 8th, 1945, was rescued a week later by an American PT boat. Died from cancer in December 1986.

 

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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

 

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

 

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