Fact is in 1945 Edward took his own life after escaping from an enforced march of enfeebled POWs from the Sandakan prison camp. Another escapee, Owen Campbell, who had stayed with Edward who was ...

One of 2500 prisoners of war who died in Borneo’s notorious Sandakan prison and on the horrific ... 1787 Australians and 641 British died at the camp or while being used as an ever-weakening ...

Only five per cent Australian soldiers survived the prison-of-war camps in Changi, Sandakan and Kuching. In late 1944, as the Allied Forces won back much of the Pacific, the airstrip was destroyed ...

Billy Young and five others were the only survivors who went to the Sandakan camp In an interview with ABC in 2016, Mr Young said he never regretted joining the military Surrounded by family in ...

Historian Lynette Silver, who has written extensively on Sandakan, said ... and death, in the camp and prison, the only visual records we have.” “He was always aware of how lucky he ...

Bill Young's picture of the Sandakan POW camp(Supplied) Bill Young was just 16 when Singapore fell and he became a prisoner of war. Shipped to Sandakan, he was beaten ...

“The Sandakan-Ranau death march began at the Sandakan prison camp at Batu 8, and ended at the Ranau prison camp, spanning a total distance of 265km, and took 10 days to complete,” he told ...

KOTA KINABALU: Billy Young, the last surviving prisoner of war (POW) from the infamous Sandakan Camp, has died from complications caused by Covid-19. He was 96. Young was surrounded by his family ...

Bill Sticpewich first came to my attention when I was researching the war crimes trial of Captain Hoshijima Susumu, the Japanese commandant of Sandakan POW camp. At his trial in 1946 ...

SANDAKAN, March 27 (Bernama) -- The community Iftar programme, involving mosque congregants, volunteers, and inmates held at the Sandakan Prison Institution today, holds the potential for expansion to ...

During World War II, the quarantine station was used as an internment camp first for British civilians, and then prisoners of war (POW). In June 1943, several POWs bound for Sandakan escaped from ...