Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

VX43981

Private

Hotchin, David Pimpernell

 

Australian

Australian Army Service Corps

A.I.F. 4 Res. M.T. Coy.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

840

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

53

Date of Death:

1945/03/07

Place of Death:

Sandakan Number 1 Camp

Buried:

Sandakan Number 1 Compound (Cemetery on east side of track leading to camp, used untill March 1945).

 

Loved Ones

Son of David and Jessie Hotchin; husband of Margaret Ellen Hotchin, of Auburn, Victoria

 

Memorial

Panel 23.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

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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