The Sandakan Community Educational Committee

Sandakan Educational Committee 2023

The Sandakan Community Education Committee is a community committee supported and endorsed by Burwood Council. The Committee evolved after the dedication of the Sydney Region Sandakan Memorial in Burwood Park on August 1, 1993. The inaugural meeting of the Sandakan Community Education Committee was on March 11, 1996. The purpose of the Committee is to encourage public awareness about the Sandakan story and to honour the memory of the people who died during the Second World War at Sandakan, Ranau and in the jungles of British North Borneo, now known as Sabah. 

Burwood Council supports and endorses the Committee because of its worthy purpose, relevance due to the location of the Burwood Sandakan Memorial in Burwood Park and to recognise the 23 Burwood residents who died at Sandakan. 

Current Committee members 2023

  • Cr John Faker, Mayor of Burwood - Chairperson 
  • Cr Heather Crichton, Burwood Council 
  • Tommaso Briscese, General Manager Burwood Council 
  • Gladys Barnes, Daughter of Private Ralph Shields 
  • Dennis Quinlan, Secretary Burwood RSL Sub-branch 
  • Colin Hodges, Burwood RSL Sub-branch 
  • Michael Moroney, Burwood RSL Sub-branch 
  • Leonie Jackson, President Ashfield RSL Sub-branch 
  • John Fisk, Founding Committee Member 
  • Clyde Livingstone, Founding Committee Member 
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