Atrocities

Sandakan

 

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

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

1817403

Gunner

Holder, Charles James

 

British

Royal Artillery

48 Bty., 21 Lt. A.A. Regt.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

2632

Force:

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

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

27

Date of Death:

1945/06/14

Place of Death:

14 mile from Borto (103 miles from Sandakan)

Buried:

No known grave.

 

Loved Ones

Son of Charles James Holder and Florence Elizabeth Holder, of Walthamstow, Essex

 

Memorial

Column 21.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

 

2nd Sandakan march (Leaving Sandakan April 1945). Evidence of prisoner found at Sandakan. 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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