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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Sandakan death march - actually ... While the overcrowded prison's brutal reputation is well-deserved, the Selarang camp was relatively comfortable until near the end of the war.

SANDAKAN is as foreign and inaccessible to ... After living two years on tapioca root in prison camp I sympathize; one may re-educate the digestive tract, with pain and wind, in a lifetime ...

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 ...

Sandakan was already occupied by the Japanese when Singapore fell in 1942. The Japanese shipped 2 500 allied Prisoners of War, from the notorious prison camp at Changi into Sandakan, to build a ...

It came from Sandakan, North Borneo ... I look back over three and a half years spent in Japanese prison camps in Borneo. They were hard years, and there isn’t much that is good to be said ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...