Hu Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

7625164

Craftsman

Hughes, Douglas James

British

Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

21 Lt. A.A. Regt. Workshop Sec.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2612

Force:

British Army - arrive at Sandakan from 8th to 18th April 1943.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/06/17

Place of Death:

West of Borto (103 miles from Sandakan)

Buried:

No known grave.

Loved Ones

Son of David and Mary Hughes, of Cricklewood, Middlesex

Memorial

Column 111.

SINGAPORE 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

In Memory of Fred Taylor and John Weedon
Designed and Maintained by Ron Taylor.

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