Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

VX56512

Craftsman

Callander, Harold Michael

 

Australian

Australian Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

A.I.F. 2/4 Fd. Wksp.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1630

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:

30

Date of Death:

1945/06/05

Place of Death:

47m Sandakan

Buried:

No known grave.

 

Loved Ones

Son of Harold Michael and Frances Jane Callander; husband of Janet Agnes Callander, of Richmond, Victoria

 

Memorial

Panel 29.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

Japanese recorded death from Cardiac Beriberi.

 

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“Keeping the Candle Burning”

 

 

 

Britain at War

Acknowledgements:-

‘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

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Java Index - Roll of Honour

KEW

 

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