Ca Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

NX57540

Corporal

Cassidy, Leonard Anthony

Australian

Australian Army Provost Corps

A.I.F. 8 Divisional Provost Coy.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

173

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:

1945/04/26

Place of Death:

Believed to be Sandakan

Buried:

No known grave, believed to be Sandakan

Loved Ones

Son of Cecilia Hannah Cassidy, of Gladesville, New South Wales

Memorial

Panel 30.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

Mentioned in Death Roll (Compiled by the Japanese 9th Division, some entries are believed to be fabricated). Japanese recorded death from Malaria.

“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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