Bu Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

63906

Flying Officer

Burgess, Humphrey George

British

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2181

Force:

Royal Air Force - arrive at Sandakan from 8th to 18th April 1943.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/08/27

Place of Death:

Ranau Number 2 Jungle Camp (near 110 mile peg, 5 mile south of Ranau)

Buried:

Body recovered and buried at Labaun Cemetery

Loved Ones

Son of Arthur Humphrey and Lucy Margaret Burgess; husband of Elsie Frances Burgess, of Stamford, Lincolnshire

Memorial

12. D. 8-12.

LABUAN WAR CEMETERY

2nd Sandakan march (Leaving Sandakan April 1945). Evidence of prisoner found at Ranau. Known to have been killed.

“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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