Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia

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Location Labuan, Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan, Malaysia
Type memorial
Description

The Labuan Memorial was primarily intended to commemorate the officers and men of the Australian Army and Air Force who died while prisoners of war in Borneo and the Philippines from 1942 to 1945 and during the 1945 operations for the recovery of Borneo, and have no known grave. Subsequently it was found that a number of men belonging to the local forces of North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei who were killed on war service also have no known grave, and they too are honoured here. Men of the Royal Australian Navy who lost their lives in the south-western Pacific region, and have no grave but the sea, are commemorated on Plymouth Naval Memorial in England, along with many of their comrades of the Royal Navy and of other Commonwealth Naval Forces.

This memorial consists of a colonnade forming a forecourt immediately inside the wrought iron gates of the main entrance to the cemetery. On the inner faces of the pillars are bronze panels on which are engraved the names of those whom it honours and the dedicatory inscription is on the frieze facing the entrance. Some of those whose names appear on the memorial are undoubtedly buried in unidentified graves in this cemetery.

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FISHER, Percy Lockwood

Service number NX68388
Private
2nd/3rd Motor Ambulance Convoy
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 3 Oct 1896

COLYER, George William

Service number NX25213
Corporal
Australian Army Provost Corps (WW2)
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 5 Dec 1913

CRAZE, Richard

Service number V125464
Private
Born 4 Jul 1919

BURLING, James Harold

Service number NX33999
Private
2nd/20th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 29 Nov 1914

COON, Leonard John

Service number NX36283
Corporal
2nd/12th Field Ambulance
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 15 Aug 1910

ANDERSON, Eric Roy

Service number VX67161
Craftsman
2nd/10th Ordnance Workshop
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 29 Aug 1919

RICHARDS, Edward Morton

Service number SX9634
Private
8th Division Salvage Unit
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 13 Mar 1901

BARKER, Gordon John

Service number SX9269
Private
Born 25 Sep 1915

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