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VX45368
Sergeant
John Benson Henley
Born 1903
Son of John and Rose Henley
Husband of Louise Beatrice Henley, of Colac, Victoria
Australian Army Medical Corps
8th Division Mobile Bath Unit
Service
Photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX45368 Sergeant John Benson Henley, 8th Division Mobile Bath Unit, Australian Army Medical Corps.
Japanese PoW
1942/07/07 - B - left Singapore on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, destination Borneo
1942/07/18 - Arrived Sandakan
Sandakan Number 2 Camp (British moved from this camp to the Number 1 Camp about the 15 April 1945. Survivors were then moved back to a wired section of Number 2 Camp on 29 May 1945)
Buried Sandakan Number 2 Compound (Cemetery was slit trenches, used after May 1945).
Died
Aged 42
6th June 1945
Loved Ones
Son of John and Rose Henley
Husband of Louise Beatrice Henley, of Colac, Victoria
Memorial
Panel 25.
Labuan Memorial
A relic of John’s found at Sandakan.
Japanese recorded death from Malaria
The Japanese made out false death certificates as a cover up to the deaths of almost 2500 who died at Sandakan Camp and the Sandakan Marches
Sandakan Memorial Park
Formerly the Sandakan POW Camp
Information
Lee Elisa
Sandakan
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
‘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
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