Bu Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

11052489

Gunner

Burgess, Richard

British

Royal Artillery

242 Bty., 48 Lt. A.A. Regt.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2403

Force:

British Army - Captured Java arrive at Sandakan from 8th to 18th April 1943.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/02/21

Place of Death:

Sandakan Number 2 Camp (British moved from this camp to the Number 1 Camp about the 15 April 1945. Survivors were then moved back to a wired section of Number 2 Camp on 29 May 1945)

Buried:

No known grave

Loved Ones

Son of Richard and Jane Burgess; husband of E. Burgess, of Washington, Co. Durham

Memorial

Column 14.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

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

In Memory of Fred Taylor and John Weedon
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