Bu Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

VX54832

Private

Burns, Robert Norman Benson

Australian

Australian Army Ordnance Corps

A.I.F. 22/27 Ind. Bde. Wksp.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1615

Force:

E - left Singapore 28th March 1943, arrived Kuching 1st April. Some senior officers and OR's stay, the rest sent to Sandakan.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/06/05

Place of Death:

44.5m Sandakan

Buried:

Body recovered and buried at Labaun Cemetery

Loved Ones

Son of James Edward Benson Burns and Elsie Elizabeth Burns. of Box Hill. Victoria

Memorial

16. D. 4.

LABUAN WAR CEMETERY

2nd Sandakan march (Leaving Sandakan April 1945). Japanese recorded death from Malaria and Beriberi.

“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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