Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

NX49756

Private

McDonald, Charles Henry

 

Australian

Australian Infantry

A.I.F. 2/18 Bn.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1958

Force:

Captured Java and sent to Kuching were they joined 'E' Force to arrive Sandakan April 1943.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

32

Date of Death:

1945/06/03

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 2 Compound (Cemetery was slit trenches, used after May 1945).

 

Loved Ones

Son of John and Anslena McDonald

 

Memorial

Panel 11.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

Japanese recorded death from Malaria.

 

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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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