Fe Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

NX51547

Corporal

Ferguson, Norman John

Australian

Australian Army Postal Service

A.I.F. 8 Div. Postal Unit

Japanese POW

POW Number:

206

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:

1945/06/20

Place of Death:

Sandakan - Ranau, somewhere along the track

Buried:

Buried beside the track where he died. PoW dropped out of march. No known grave.

Loved Ones

Son of Albert and Helen Ferguson, of Petersham, New South Wales

Memorial

Panel 31.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

2nd Sandakan march (Leaving Sandakan April 1945). 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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Designed and Maintained by Ron Taylor.

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