Sandakan Borneo Pow Camp
After the fall of Singapore and Borneo to the Japanese a Prisoner of War Camp was established just outside of Sandakan to house approximately 750 British and more than 1650 Australian prisoners who were sent to the camp during the period 1942-43. 8142020 Do you know there was an Anglican chapel at Sandakan prisoners of war POW Camp. Join Up Photographs Panorama Of Pow Camp Area Sandakan Showing No S 1 And 2 Compounds From Japanese Guard Tower O Sandakan Camping Photography Panorama 112008 Research has indicated that some 2428 Allied servicemen1787 Australians and 641 Britishheld in the Sandakan Camp in January 1945 died between January and August 1945 in Japanese captivity. Sandakan borneo pow camp . Living conditions in the camp were reasonably good. In 1945 when the Japanese started to realise that the war may have been lost and the Allies were. After the meeting he took a well earned break and travelled to Sandakan in Northwest Borneo where he visited the site of the former Japa...