Bu Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

WX8780

Sapper

Burley, Kenneth Brooks

Australian

Royal Australian Engineers

A.I.F. 2/6 Fd. Pk. Coy.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

425

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:

1945/05/18

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 Robert John and Elizabeth Burley; husband of Moy Margaret Burley, of Bridgetown, Western Australia

Memorial

Panel 6.

LABUAN 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
Designed and Maintained by Ron Taylor.

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