Jo Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

NX65469

Private

Johnston, Colin Stuart

Australian

Australian Army Service Corps

A.I.F. 8 Div. Supply Column

Japanese POW

POW Number:

875

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:

1945/07/14

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:

Sandakan Number 4 Cemetery. Slit trenches near airfield. Where 23 were massacred.

Loved Ones

Son of James and Daphne Johnston, of Croydon, New South Wales

Memorial

Panel 23.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

Known to have been killed. Japanese recorded death from Appendisitis

“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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