Bu Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

QX11039

Gunner

Bunch, Norman Henry

Australian

Royal Australian Artillery

A.I.F. 2/10 Fd. Regt.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1611

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:

1945/06/17

Place of Death:

Sandakan - Ranau, somewhere along the track (2nd March)

Buried:

No known grave.

Loved Ones

Son of Edwin Herbert and Ruby Alice Bunch; husband of Joan Doris Bunch, of South Brisbane, Queensland

Memorial

Panel 2.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

Relic found by locals, could be found anywhere between Sandakan and Ranau. Japanese recorded death from Dysentery.

“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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