AS WE GREW UP WE SELDOM TALKED ABOUT IT by ANUP SINGH, SON OF JEMADAR OJAGAR SINGH

SEJARAH NORTH BORNEO SABAH

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WORLD WAR TWO SERIES

Jemadhar Ojagar Singh was one of those who were involved in helping eight Australian Prisoners of War to escape from Berhala Island as he was the man in charge of the police department at Berhala. He was a fund contributor and involved in the mapping of the escape routes. The Sandakan Underground network was destroyed in September 1943 by the Japanese. Ojagar was arrested brutally and mercilessly tortured with broken jaw and shattered elbow. He was transferred to Kuching and was put on trial on the 29th February 1944. He was executed on the 2nd March 1944.

This is a story written by the son of Jemadhar Ojagar Singh during and the aftermath of his father's arrest and Execution moving forward .