Bu Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

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VX58285

Corporal

Burchnall, Francis Alan

Australian

Australian Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

A.I.F. 2/10 Ordnance Wksp.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

453

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:

1945/06/04

Place of Death:

Sandakan - Ranau, somewhere along the track

Buried:

No known grave.

Loved Ones

Son of Francis Robert and Gertrude Nathelia Burchnall, of Bendigo, Victoria. Father BURCHNALL, FRANCIS ROBERT also died on the Sandakan Marches.

Memorial

Panel 28.

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

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