Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

818029

Serjeant

Rooker, Joseph Harold

 

British

Royal Artillery

12 Bty., 6 H.A.A. Regt.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2326

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

31

Date of Death:

1945/08/04

Place of Death:

Believed to be Sandakan

Buried:

No known grave

 

Loved Ones

Son of John and Daisy Rooker; husband of Susan Rooker, of Portsmouth

 

Memorial

Column 6.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

 

1st Sandakan march (9 groups leaving Sandakan between 29th January and the 6th February 1945). 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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