By their very nature, all war memorials are tragic and sad places. Kundasang War Memorial must be one of the saddest of all, because it remembers 2,428 British and Australian troops who either died at Sandakan POW Camp or on the forced marches from Sandakan to Ranau in 1945. Only 6 Australian...
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Private 5182540 J Ireland, 5th Gloucestershire Regiment, taken prisoner by the Germans on the 29th May 1940.
He was prisoner 6136 at Stalag XX-A, Torun, Poland
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George Edward LEWIS. Private, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment. Born 9th December 1915 and died 4th October 2000...
COATES, Ernest. Signalman 2330292, Royal Corps of Signals died November 26th 1942 aged 24 at Osaca Camp, Japan, whilst a prisoner of war. He was the son of Alfred Oscar and Martha of Cleveleys, Lancashire. He is commemorated on his parents memorial at Leigh Cemetery, Lancashire, and he is at...
GREEN, Harold Fiddian. Sergeant 2656703 Coldstream Guards died 3rd November 1945 aged 31. He was the son of Harold and Pollie Elizabeth of Welford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. He was a prisoner of war in Stalag VIII-A, Gorlitz, Saxony, Germany, and he was prisoner 155386. He is at rest in...
RILEY George. Private 27379, 16th Cheshire Regiment. He died of wounds in Germany on the 25th November 1917 aged 29 which he received in action. He is was the son of Thomas and Mary Ann and he is commemorated on a family memorial in Knutsford Cemetery, Cheshire. He is at rest in Gent City...
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