Sandakan

27 09 2016

Intimate Histories of War

By John Braithwaite|2016-09-27T16:37:18+10:0027 September 2016|Categories: Peace, War, War crimes|Tags: Richard Braithwaite, Sandakan|

This is a week of Braithwaite family remembrance of the suffering of war

Dr Brendan Nelson, at the Australian War Memorial on 28 September, will launch my brother Dick’s splendid book on the Sandakan Death March that took the life of our mother’s first husband, Wal Blatch. Our father Dick Braithwaite was one of six Death […]

24 04 2016

Lest We Forget Wal, Dick and Joyce

By John Braithwaite|2017-10-18T06:33:59+11:0024 April 2016|Categories: War|Tags: Anzac Day, death march, peacebuilding compared, reconciliation, restorative justice, Sandakan, World War II|

Today, 25 April, I give the Call to Remembrance at the site of the Sandakan prison camp. From this site the terrible war crime of the Sandakan Death March departed in 1945. My father, Dick Braithwaite, was one of 6 survivors. More than 2400 Australian and British Prisoners of War from the camp perished. Many […]