Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

SX10704

Private

Lester, John

 

Australian

Australian Army Service Corps

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

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

394

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

38

Date of Death:

1945/03/30

Place of Death:

Sandakan ? (Death Roll)

Buried:

No known grave, believed to be Sandakan

 

Loved Ones

Son of Jesse and Emily Lester; husband of Eleanor Lester, of Mount Gambier, South Australia

 

Memorial

Panel 23.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

Relic found at Sandakan. Japanese recorded death recorded from Beriberi.

 

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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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