Sandakan PoW Camp and Forced March


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Reference WMO/241820

Address:

St Alban the Martyr Garrison Church

The Packway

Larkhill

SP4 8NA

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Brass
Lettering: Unknown
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Brass plaque commemorating the victims of a Japanese PoW camp and forced march in Borneo. During their occupation, the Japanese established a prisoner of war camp to hold their captive enemies. Allied planes started to raid Sandakan in September 1944. As the Japanese feared further retaliation from the Allied forces, they began to move all prisoners and forced them to march to Ranau. Thousands of British and Australian soldiers lost their lives during this forced march in addition to Javanese labourers from the Dutch East Indies. Only six Australian soldiers survived from this camp, all after escaping. Sandakan was completely destroyed both by bombing from Allied forces and by the Japanese occupation.
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SANDAKAN 1942 - 1945 / IN MEMORY OF THOSE / BRITISH AND AUSTRAILIAN SERVICEMEN. MANY OF WHOM WERE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLIERY, / WHO DIED WHILE PRISONERS OF WAR / IN NORTH BORNEO

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