Captain John Oakeshott, a country doctor before World War II, managed as a prisoner of war to survive the long series of atrocities culminating in the horror known as the Sandakan Death March | tonyowright
Captain John Oakeshott, a country doctor before World War II, managed as a prisoner of war to survive the long series of atrocities culminating in the horror known as the Sandakan Death March.
There were 2434 Australian and British prisoners imprisoned at Sandakan, most of them captured after the fall of Singapore in 1942. “It’s not an easy story to tell. It’s a horror story. Gut wrenching horror,” opposition frontbencher Jason Clare said in a speech to the Federal Parliament this week.Captain Oakeshott spent years as a POW before he was executed by the Japanese after the war ended.
But 10 days later, on August 27, the last 15 prisoners were taken from the Ranau camp, ostensibly for release, and shot while they rested beneath a tree.
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