Cu Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

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QX10200

Gunner

Currey, William John

Australian

Royal Australian Artillery

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

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1663

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:

1945/07/04

Place of Death:

Ranau Number 2 Jungle Camp (near 110 mile peg, 5 mile south of Ranau)

Buried:

Ranau Number 2 Jungle Camp (First Cemetery, near Japanese hut, used from 11th June to about the 9th July 1945).

Loved Ones

Son of Edward John and Gladys Currey, of Injune, Queensland. Brother CURREY, JAMES EDWARD also died on the Sandakan Marches.

Memorial

Panel 2.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

Relic found at Sandakan. 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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