Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

VX20253

Driver

Hitchens, Ralph

 
 

Australian

Australian Army Service Corps

A.I.F. 1 Corps Petrol Pk.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1905

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

37

Date of Death:

1945/04/19

Place of Death:

Sandakan Number 1 Camp

Buried:

Sandakan Number 2 Compound (Cemetery on east side of track near boiler house, used from March untill May 1945).

 

Loved Ones

Son of William and Florence Hitchens; husband of Eileen Kathleen Hitchens, of Albert Park, Victoria

 

Memorial

Panel 22.

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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