Th Database

Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

1065901

Gunner

Thornett, Archibald William James

British

Royal Artillery

15 Bty., 6 H.A.A. Regt.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2926

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/06/14

Place of Death:

Sandakan - Ranau, somewhere along the track

Buried:

No known grave.

Loved Ones

Son of William Thomas and Alice Thornett. Husband of Irene D. Thornett (nee Gibson), of Wolvercote, Oxford. Brother to Victor Gordon and Eve

Memorial

Column 32.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

Born 1910 Oxford. 2nd Sandakan march (Leaving Sandakan April 1945). British Roll only (This is the only record found). Japanese recorded death from Malaria.

“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

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