Private Norman Leslie Morgan VX34894 was among those captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore in February 1942 and died as a Prisoner of War at Sandakan in Borneo in 1945. For more on Sandakan see Stolen Years: Australian prisoners of war, an online exhibition published by the Australian War Memorial.
Most POWs at Sandakan died slowly, of starvation, and were beaten and tortured. 'Toward the end of the war, when the Japanese decided to flee Sandakan, most of the remaining prisoners were marched to their deaths. Those who were strong enough to make it to the end of the trail were executed.' See: Thomas Fuller, 'Borneo Death March /Of 2,700 Prisoners, 6 Survived: An Old Soldier Remembers a Wartime Atrocity', The New York Times, 23 March 1999. Norman Morgan's cause of death was given as 'illness'.