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Laden, Fevered, Starved: The POWs of Sandakan, North Borneo, 1945
  • Remembering Sandakan
  • 'Found over sixty paybooks and various other articles'
  • 'We are well. We are happy. We are well fed'
  • 'Once you stopped, you stopped for good'
  • 'It was a one way trip'
  • 'They had not any food for a week'
  • 'They killed the lot of them'
  • 'If you escape the same thing will happen to you'
  • 'Sydney was a long way from there'
  • Remembering Sandakan 1945—1999
  • Bibliography
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Laden, Fevered, Starved—the POWs of Sandakan, North Borneo, 1945


Bibliography

Books

Athol Moffitt, Project Kingfisher, Sydney, 1989.

Hank Nelson, Prisoners of War—Australians Under Nippon, Sydney, 1988.

Lynette Ramsay Silver, Sandakan—A Conspiracy of Silence, Sydney, 1998.

A J Sweeting, ‘Camps in Borneo, Japan and Elsewhere’, in Lionel Wigmore, The Japanese Thrust, Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Series One, Army, Vol IV, Canberra, 1957, Chapter 25, pp.593-604.

Don Wall, Sandakan—The Last March, Sydney, 1988.

Don Wall, Kill the Prisoners, Sydney, 1997

Archives

War Diary, 23 War Graves Unit, 21/2/24, Australian War Memorial (hereafter AWM) 52.

Report on investigations, concerning the fate of Allied prisoners of war, and internees, in British Borneo--North Borneo, Labuan, Brunei, and Sarawak--by Capt L C Darling, POW Liaison Officer, HQ, 9th Aust Division, 1945, 422/7/8, AWM 54.

Australian War Crimes, Board of Inquiry, James Richard Braithwaite, 1010/4/19, AWM 54.

Account of Sandakan and the Sandakan-Ranau marches, QX9538 WO1 William Hector Sticpewich, 8 Div AASC, 1010/4/134, AWM 54.

Statement of NX42191 Private Keith Botterill, 2/19th Battalion, Sydney, 14 November 1945, 1010/4/17, AWM 54.

Statement of NX19750 Lance Bombardier William Dick Moxham, 2/15th Australian Field Regiment, Sydney, 19 November 1945, 1010/4/107, AWM 54.

Statement of NX58617 Private Nelson Short, 2/18th Battalion, 1010/4/129, AWM 54.

Statement by Yokota Kinza W C 662 Suga Butai, Labuan, 12 December 1945, 1010/4/174, AWM 554.

Statement of Ali Asa, Sandakan, 1946, papers of Lieutenant Colonel H W S Jackson, item 9, part 2, PR 84/231, AWM.

Statement of Wong Hiong, Sandakan, 1946, papers of Lieutenant Colonel H W S Jackson, item 9, part 1, PR 84/231, AWM.

Statement of Goto Yoshitaro, no date, 1010/4/174, AWM 54.

Statement of Toyooka Eijiro, Labuan, December 1945, in 'Affidavits by Japanese personnel in connection with charges arising from Sandakan-Ranau death march', 417/1/7, AWM 54.

Statement of Widow Burih, Compensation: Natives: British North Borneo, 29 December 1946, papers of Lieutenant Colonel H W S Jackson, item 9, part 2, PR 84/231, AWM.

Untitled poem by Colin Simpson, typescript account by Major H W S Jackson of his mission to Borneo, 1946/1947, papers of Lieutenant Colonel H W S Jackson, item 21, PR 84/231, AWM.

Others

Papers of Private E H Ings, Ings family.

Labuan War Cemetery, The War Dead of the British Commonwealth and Empire, The Register of those who fell in the 1939-1945 War and are buried in Cemeteries in Borneo and the Philippine Islands—Labuan War Cemetery, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, London, 1960.

Owen Campbell, interview, official pilgrimage to Borneo, 1995, transcript from Ryebuck Media, Melbourne.

Sound recording, Six from Borneo, Australian Broadcasting Commission, 30 May 1947, S01899, AWM.

Special thanks for their help in the compilation of this booklet are due to the Ings family of Binalong, NSW; Mr Hugh Waring, Canberra; Mrs Enid Maskey, Sandakan Memorial Foundation; Mr Bruce Ruxton, President of the Victorian Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia; officers of the Office of Australian War Graves; and the staff of the Australian War Memorial.

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