Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

1135446

Aircraftman 1st Class

Holben, Reginald James

 

British

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

 

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2599

Force:

Royal Air Force - arrive at Sandakan from 8th to 18th April 1943.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

35

Date of Death:

1945/04/05

Place of Death:

Sandakan Number 2 Camp (British moved from this camp to the Number 1 Camp about the 15 April 1945. Survivors were then moved back to a wired section of Number 2 Camp on 29 May 1945)

Buried:

Body recovered and buried at Labaun Cemetery

 

Loved Ones

Son of Ernest Edward and Elizabeth Holben; husband of Margaret Evelyn Holben, of Hammersmith, London

 

Memorial

T. A. 5.

LABUAN WAR CEMETERY

 

Japanese recorded death from Acute Enteritus.

 

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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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