Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

NX60194

Private

Taylor, Walter Charles

 

Australian

Australian Army Service Corps

A.I.F. 1 Coy.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1328

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

40

Date of Death:

1945/05/08

Place of Death:

Believed to be Sandakan

Buried:

No known grave, believed to be Sandakan

 

Loved Ones

Son of John and Mary Ann Taylor, of Ando, New South Wales

 

Memorial

Panel 25.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

Mentioned in Death Roll (Compiled by the Japanese 9th Division, some entries are believed to be fabricated). 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

 

In Memory of Fred Taylor and John Weedon
Designed and Maintained by Ron Taylor.

 

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