Sandakan Ranau VJ-Day Remembrance Service

Hazel Braund wishes to invite COFEPOW members to the VJ-Day Remembrance Service for the families and friends of those who never returned from the Sandakan-Ranau Death Marches in Borneo. Almost 2,500 Allied POWs lost their lives at the Sandakan camp during the Japanese occupation.

The Service will be held on Friday 15th August at St. Clement Danes RAF Church, Strand (at the end of Fleet Street), London WC2R 1DH, at 12.30pm (although this is an RAF church, all services are welcome).

For details, please contact Hazel at hbraund@hotmail.co.uk

Records show that just six men survived out of 1,496 Australians and 1,004 British POWs. The remainder were starved, shot, beaten to death or otherwise killed by an unimaginably sadistic enemy, while they were POWs in what was formerly British North Borneo, between July 1942 andAugust 1945.