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Sandakan

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

This Page Is Dedicated To

NX56981

Private

Headford, Francis William

Australian

Australian Army Service Corps

A.I.F. 27 Bde. Coy.

Japanese POW

POW Number:

843

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

Date of Death:

1945/04/10

Place of Death:

Ranau Number 1 Camp (near airstrip)

Buried:

Ranau Number 1 Camp (Main Cemetery, used 16th March 1945 to 29th April 1945).

Loved Ones

Son of Francis John and Helena Margaret Headford; husband of Maggie Annie Headford, of Narrabeen North, New South Wales

Memorial

Panel 23.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

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

KEW

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