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Bendigo Military Museum
Booklet - BOOKLET OF POW DEATHS AT SANDAKAN, Extraction from Don Wall's book - "Sandakan - The Last March", "AUSTRALIAN/ POW DEATHS/ BRITISH NORTH BORNEO/1942-1945/ SANDAKAN", c 1988
Booklet information "Extracted from Don Wall's book - Sandakan - The Last March" .Soft cover booklet - facsimile. Cover - cardboard, black print on cover, white background. Illustration - front, small black print of a soldier with bugle with cemetery scene. Binding tape. Pages 148 to 181 copied into booklet paper. End papers - printed colour triangular shaped images.books, history, ww2, sandakan -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, WW2, SANDAKAN : The Untold Story Of The Sandakan Death Marches, Published 2012
“This is the story of the three-year ordeal of the Sandakan prisoners of war. After the fall of Singapore in February 1942. Their journey became known as the Sandakan Death Marches.”Book with dust cover. 1) Cover, hard cover, cardboard with pale green paper-cover, red and black print on spine, end papers dark red colour. 2) Dust cover, paper, red and black print on front and spine, background beige on front, grey grey colour on spine. Illustrated front and spine sepia toned photograph of two soldiers in uniform standing in a graveyard. Colour photograph on back of the “Sandakan Memorial Gates” with garden view behind. 656 pages, cut, plain, off white, illustrated black and white photographs and maps.book, wwii, sandakan, prisoners of war -
Lara RSL Sub Branch
Book, Orders of Service Sandakan, Laden, Fevered, Starved the POWs Of Sandakan North Borneo, 1945, 1999
Publication of Book on the Death Marches from Sandakan Borneo in 1945. Of 2700 prisoners, 6 survived Book and Booklets on the memorial Service held in March of 1999 commemorating the Borneo Death Marches of the POWs From Sandakan North Borneo. Memorial Service honouring those who died and survived the Death Marches in 1999! book, 4 Orders of Service Booklets 23 Coloured photos of memorial services Emails on A4 paper Book - Laden, Fevered , Starved The POWs of Sandakan North Borneo Sandakan Memorial Park Order of Ceremony Opening of the Commemorative Pavilion Order of Service Dedication of the Sanadakan Memorial Labuan War Cemetery Order of Service Ranau Order of Service Kranji War Cemetery Changi Memorial Chapel Orders of Service death march, sandakan borneo labuan ranau kranji, owen campbell -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book - BOOK, WW2, "Sandakan"
"SANDAKAN/ A conspiracy of Silence/ of the 2,434 prisoners massacred by/ the Japanese at the Sandakan POW camp, only 6, all escapees, have survived."Soft cover book. Cover - cardboard; green, blue, yellow and white colour print on front spine and book, illustrated, red colour round blotches on a mottled grey colour background. 400 pages, cut, plain white paper. Illustrated black and white photographs and maps. Title page - handwritten notations.Title page - handwritten notations - grey lead pencil "PSO 985/ ECEA" . Black ink "MS FRANK MARRIOTT".books, ww2, pows, sandakan, japan -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Reid Richard Page Courtney Pounds Robert, Laden, Fevered, Starved. The POWs of Sandakan, North Borneo, 1945, 1999
An account of the atrocities suffered by Australian POWs of the Japanese in the Sandakan, North Borneo prison camp, and the Sandakan-Ranau death marches. Includes War Memorials, illustrated with photographs.military history, memorials -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - BENDIGO SANDAKAN SERVICE, 7.3.1999 and 12.3.2000
Both photos were taken at Strathdale Park in Bendigo, one on 7.3.1999 & 12.3.2000 at the Annual Sandakan Commemoration Service. The first year it was held was in 1999, a memorial with names had been erected in the park. .1) The men in white shirts are Norm Smart and Jack Barnes. Refer Cat No's 8131.2P, 8040. .2) The two men are Jack Barnes and Jim Disken (James Cecil VX151742)Two colour photographs relating to the Bendigo RSL Sandakan commemoration. .1) Shows two men in white shirts with several others in the background park setting. .2) Shows two men standing in the park with a brick building in the background..1) On rear in blue pen, "Sandakan Commemoration Sund 7.3.1999". .2) On rear in blue pen, "Strathdale Park Bendigo Sandakan Commemoration service 12.03.2000 - L - R John K Barnes OAM Sec Bendigo RSL - Jim Disken. Both late of Kerang". brsl, smirsl, sandakan, -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Lothian Books, Defying the Odds: Surviving Sandakan & Kuching, 2006
Defying the Odds tells the story of officers of B & E Forces interred at Sandakan & Kuching during World War II.Soft card cover. Red & cream cover illustrated front & back. Title on cover & spine in black letters. 237 cut edge pages. Black & white illustrations.On first page: Len Burke 12.10.06, Donated by Len Burke.books, military, history, valour -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Sandakan, 1997 (Fifth Edition)
Green and white soft cover. Black and white illustration of a group of emaciated men with a Japanese guard. Palm trees on LHS. Black and white illustrations including many head and shoulder portraits. Inside cover and fly leaf are covered with autographs and address of members of a 1995 pilgrimage tour to Sandakan. Author - DON WALL. Cover CLEM SEARLE. Pages 218Written on title pge "Greetings to Jack Baines Don Wall "97"books-military-history, books sandakan -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH, SANDAKAN WAR CEMETERY, H Eisfelder, 1947
Sandakan- Panali, North Borneo were the places of the infamous Sandakan death march. Thousands of allied POWS died. Aust lost 1787 men. Refer to the Australian War Memorial for details. Three black and white photographs taken just after WW2 .1) Photograph showing two signs, a gate post and barbed wire gate. .2) Photograph of flat land, with an enormous number of white wooden crosses. The crosses in the foreground are marked unknown. .3) photograph of flat land, with numerous white crosses. The foreground ones are marked unidentified P.W of unknown nationality .1) Photograph of signs. “Sandakan War Cemetery Turn off at Mile 7 Other sign “ Australian War graves at Mile 8” Rear has a label. All three- Sandakan (North Bendigo) photo taken early June 1947 by H. Eisfelder. ww2, p.o.w, sandakan -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, William Heinemann, Sandakan : the untold story of the Sandakan Death Marches, 2013
The untold story of the Sandakan death marches of World War II. After the fall of Singapore, in February 1942, the Japanese conquerors rounded up tens of thousands of British and Australian soldiers and shipped them to prison camps scattered throughout Hirohito's newly won Empire. The fall of Britain's 'impregnable fortress' was the greatest humiliation in British military history, for which Churchill never forgave the Japanese. But nothing would surpass the wretched fate of some 2,700 British and Australian prisoners who were shipped to British North Borneo later that year. They landed in Sandakan, on the east coast of the island, after a 10-day voyage on a Japanese 'hell' ship, and were herded into a jungle camp some eight miles inland. Thus began the three-year ordeal of the Sandakan prisoners of war - a barely known story of unimaginable horror.Index, bibliography, notes, ill, p.688.non-fictionThe untold story of the Sandakan death marches of World War II. After the fall of Singapore, in February 1942, the Japanese conquerors rounded up tens of thousands of British and Australian soldiers and shipped them to prison camps scattered throughout Hirohito's newly won Empire. The fall of Britain's 'impregnable fortress' was the greatest humiliation in British military history, for which Churchill never forgave the Japanese. But nothing would surpass the wretched fate of some 2,700 British and Australian prisoners who were shipped to British North Borneo later that year. They landed in Sandakan, on the east coast of the island, after a 10-day voyage on a Japanese 'hell' ship, and were herded into a jungle camp some eight miles inland. Thus began the three-year ordeal of the Sandakan prisoners of war - a barely known story of unimaginable horror.world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war - sandakan, japan - prisons and prisoners of war -
Wangaratta RSL Sub Branch
Badge, unknown
Badge commemorating the Sandakan death marches, one of the worst atrocities suffered by Australian troops during WWII.Australian prisoners were sent to Sandakan in 1942 to build an airstrip. At first they were treated reasonably well. Gradually, however, rations were reduced and bashings increased. By late 1944, with Allied forces advancing toward Borneo, the Japanese decided to send about 2,000 Australian and British prisoners westward to Ranau, in Borneo’s rugged interior. Weak and sick prisoners staggered for about 260 kilometres along jungle tracks. Many died on the way, their bodies never recovered. Those unable to continue were killed; those too weak to march had been left behind in Sandakan, where all died or were killed. Only six – all Australians – out of about a thousand sent to Ranau survived the war. The Sandakan “death march” remains the greatest single atrocity committed against Australians in war.Circular badge with green background and black text and figures. Six soldiers are silhouetted next to a tree. Safety pin clasp on back."LEST WE FORGET" "Sandakan Ranau / Death March"pow, world war two, death march, sandakan death marches, borneo -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Michael P Garnett, Mystery on an Island Paradise - Sandakan, 2008
Hard paper cover, coloured photo, no dust cover, 46 pages, illustrated, black & white photos, black text on white paper.books, military, history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, William E Thomason, March to Ranau - Australian Servicemen at Sandakan, Borneo 1943 - 1945, 1989
Green hardcover, black ink drawing, certificate on back cover, 54 pages. Black & white photos throughout, black text on white paper.books, military, history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Dr Richard Reid et al, Sandakan 1942 - 1945, 2008
Book, black & grey soft paper cover, no dust cover, abstract design. 867 cut edge pages, black & white photos.books, military, history -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Lothian Books, Defying the odds : surviving Sandakan and Kuching, 2006
Presents a riveting account of the experiences of a unique group of 145 Australian officers who were held prisoners by the Japanese, at Sandakan, and later Kuching, from 1942 to 1945.Index, bib, ill, maps, p.237.non-fictionPresents a riveting account of the experiences of a unique group of 145 Australian officers who were held prisoners by the Japanese, at Sandakan, and later Kuching, from 1942 to 1945.world war 1939 – 1945 - prisons and prisoners - japanese, prisoners of war - sandakan and kuching -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Department of Veterans Affairs, Sandakan 1942-1945, 2014
Illustrated history of the Sandakan death marches. Includes a roll of honourIll, maps, p.138.non-fictionIllustrated history of the Sandakan death marches. Includes a roll of honourworld war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war - sandakan, world war 1939-1945 - prisoners and prisons - japan -
Lilydale RSL Sub Branch
Book, Paul Ham, SANDAKAN, 2012
The Untold Story of the SANDAKAN Death MarchesBooknon-fictionThe Untold Story of the SANDAKAN Death Marches -
Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library
Book, Robert Hale, Escape from hell : the Sandakan story, 1958
The author tells of his imprisonment and escape from British North Borneo, of guerilla warfare in the Philippine archipelago and finally his voyage to Australia.p.175.non-fictionThe author tells of his imprisonment and escape from British North Borneo, of guerilla warfare in the Philippine archipelago and finally his voyage to Australia.world war 1939-1945 - prisoners of war, world war 1939-1945 - escapes -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH, WW2, WW2
Photograph depicts "The arrival of Lt.Gen. Baba Masao, Supreme Commander, Japanese/ Forces, Labuan Borneo". (Exhibition Label with photograph.)Photograph - copy of black and white photograph depicting 3 Australian troops and six Japanese personnel with an aeroplane fuselage in the background. Photo is laminated - on back is handwritten notation.Back of photo - handwritten in black ink "HOSHIJIMA/IN / CHARGE/ SANDAKAN CAMP.photographs, ww2, japan, sandakan -
Bendigo Military Museum
Sign - SIGN, LETTER "K"
"K" Plaque from Sandakan Memorial at Crook Street, Strathdale. The sign was vandalised and this letter was found nearby. A new letter was installed on the memorial.Letter "K" - brass. Some traces of adhesive noted on rear of letter.memorials, sandakan -
Bendigo Military Museum
Booklet - BOOKLET WW1, POW, William E Thomason, March to Ranau, 1989
March to Ranau, Australian Servicemen at Sandakan, Borneo 1943 - 1945.Soft cardboard cover, black print front & back. Green background, front cover illustration is a line drawing of men in jungle scene by Iain Glanville. Back cover illustration certificate.Handwritten in blue ink on title page: “W E Thomason Nov 1989”booklet, pow, ranua, sandakan -
Bendigo Military Museum
Booklet - BOOKLET, SANDAKAN MEMORIAL PARK, Australian Government Department of Veteran Affairs, March 2005
Booklet - Cardboard green with cream print and decorative motif, 15 pages.“Sandakan Memorial Park” “Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia”booklet, sandakan memorial park -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH of TWO SOLDIERS, c1939-1940
Photograph of Father and Son from World War 2, taken up against a wooden fence - in full uniform. Identified as Francis Robert Burchnall (father) No. 1666 (WW1) & VX64477 and Francis Alan Burchnall VX58285 (son). Both KIA at Sandakan.Black & white photo of two WW2 soldiers standing against a wooden fence.Hand writing on back of photo of names of "Frank Burchnall" & "Father" & Frank.sandakan, ww2, photograph -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH, RAN, C.1939 - 40
George Bradshaw MORRISS No 23670 enlisted in the RAN on 23.10.1939 aged 17 years. He was posted to Australian light cruiser, HMAS Perth. HMAS Perth was torpedoed & sunk by the Japanese Navy in the Battle of the Sunda Strait, between the islands of Java & Sumatra in late February 1942. Approximately half of the crew were lost & the remainder taken into captivity. 106 died as POWs. George died at Sandakan on 29.5.1945. He is rembered on the Sandakan Memorial in Bendigo, Victoria.Black / white photo of sailor, George Bradshaw MORRISS in uniform including hat.On hat band in white: “H.M.A.S. PERTH”photograph, ran, perth, pow, sandakan -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH WW2, 1941
Francis Alan BURCHNALL VX58285, 2/10 Ord W/shops enlisted 24.6.41, promoted to Cpl, possibly embarked with his father on 10.1.42. Taken P.O.W he lost his life on the Sandakan Death march in Borneo 4.6.45. His father also lost his life in Borneo. Refer Cat No 1117P for his WW1 and WW2 service details.Photo, Sepia tone, protrait of a soldier in uniform no hat, photo is on a light brown paper material over a metal frame all has a plastic coating over. Photo is re CPL F.A Burchnall. photography- photgraph, military history, sandakan -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPHS, SANDAKAN, C. Post 2000
All colour photographs - Borneo (Sandakan) .1) Black metal boiler. .2) 4 Flags on flag poles. .3) Pool under pergola & collonade. .4) Pool under pergola & collonade. .5) Pool under pergola & collonade. .6) Wreaths at base of memorial. .7) Pebble map of Australia encircled with plants & Australian flags in lawn area. .8) Granite war memorial & military person. .9) Australian Army soldiers standing around war memorial. .10) War memorial. .11) View of countryside adjacent to war memorial. .12) 2 Women standing at base of memorial holding a framed photo of male servicemen.photography-photographs, military history, sandakan -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH WW2, FRAMED, 1941
Raymond James Russel WHYTE Initially enlisted on 16.8.40 as V28354 serving in 2 Cav Div ASC. He was discharged on 6.10.41 his enlistment date into the AIF on his records is stated as 1.10.1941 age 24 years 4 months. Taken strength at RRD Royal Park on 7.10.1941, posted to 2/10th Ordnance W/Shops 2.1.1942, embarked for Malaya 10.1.1942 arriving 26.1.1942, reported missing 16.2.1942, listed POW dated 29.10.1942, deceased while POW, cause not stated 5.6.1945. Raymond died in Borneo on the Sandakan Death March.Photo, B & W Portrait of R.J.R. Whyte in uniform, no hat on. Photo is in a black plastic frame.photography - photgraphs, military history, sandakan, borneo -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH WW2, FRAMED, 1941
William Patrick SHEPHERD No VX66586 enlisted in the 2nd AIF on 26.11.1941 age 25 years 10 months at RRD Royal Park. Transfers to A.A.S.C on 3.12.1941 then posted to 2/10th Ordnance W/Shops, embark for Malaya 10.1.1942 arriving Singapore 26.1.1942, listed Missing 16.2.1942, listed as POW 13.4.1943, dated 28.9.1945 listed as deceased whilst POW, cause not stated 5.6.1945. A letter to Mrs Sheperd dated 18.1.1946 states died of Malaria. This was from Japanese records mostly. William died on the Sandakan Death March Borneo.Photo B & W portrait of W.P Sheperd in uniform no hat. Photo taken with his Regt No. Display at bottomphotography - photographs, military history, sandakan, borneo -
Bendigo Military Museum
Souvenir - SHIRT, COMMEMORATIVE, Black Leopard, 2005
Souvenir T Shirt for Remembrance Commemoration Week August 2005.Shirt - white cotton, black print and sketch.Front: Sandakan to Ranall Death Marches ....1945 Always Remembered. Back: The Borneo Exhibition 1942 - 1945 Sandakan.... The Story That Must Be Told.... Sandakan Community Centre Sabah 15th - 21st August 2005.souvenir, t shirt, sandakan commemoration -
Bendigo Military Museum
Certificate - CERTIFICATES, FRAMED
"VX35497 Pte T.W. GOLDSWORTHY" was a POW at Sandakan and died there on 20 April 1945. Refer also to Cat 3226.This is a framed display. The edge is of dull gold colour. Inside the frame there is an approx 27mm wide border - green colour. The objects in the frame are:- A certificate from the Shire of Maldon for the service and sacrifice of "Trevor Goldsworthy". Also, there is the King's memorial scroll for the death of "Pte T. W. Goldsworthy" Aust. Military Forces. Also, there is a B & W portrait of VX35497 Pte T.W. Goldsworthy, 2/5 Hygiene section. He is in uniform. Also, two paper notes from Malaya. 25 cents printed 1 Sep 1940, 10 cents printed 15 Aug 1940.The Maroon Certificate is signed by Thomas J Ottrey, President, and Edward A Rewell, Secretary. It is dated 15 June 1946.sandakan death march, pow, ww2, pte t.w. goldsworthy