Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

NX42001

Private

Chapman, Stanley Howard

 

 

Australian

Australian Infantry

A.I.F. 2/20 Bn.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

562

Force:

B - left Singapore 7th July 1942,on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, arrived Sandakan 18th July.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

31

Date of Death:

1945/05/03

Place of Death:

Ranau Number 1 Jungle Camp (near Sinarut)

Buried:

Ranau Number 1 Jungle Camp (Covers all burials at this Sinarut camp).

 

Loved Ones

Son of Samuel John and Amy Grace Chapman, of Byron Bay, New South Wales

 

Memorial

Panel 13.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

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

 

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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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