Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

1543181

Gunner

Maguire, Christopher

 

British

Royal Artillery

69 Bty., 21 Lt. A.A. Regt.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2747

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

43

Date of Death:

1945/04/28

Place of Death:

Sandakan Number 1 Camp

Buried:

Body recovered and buried at Labaun Cemetery

 

Loved Ones

Son of William and Mary Maguire, of Liverpool; husband of Mary Maguire, of Liverpool

 

Memorial

T. B. 12.

LABUAN WAR CEMETERY

 

No further detail.

 

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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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