The fascinating and tragic service of a Gympie-born soldier held prisoner during WWII will be commemorated at the Last Post ...

At the memorial...clockwise from top ... With Allied forces nearing Sandakan, the Japanese ordered prisoners to march 265 kilometres to Ranau. Of 2434 Australian and British prisoners in Sandakan ...

A memorial service for the thousands of allied soldiers who died in the Sandakan death marches during World War II will be held in Malaysia at the weekend. Governor-General Quentin Bryce will fly ...

The Australians who died at Sandakan in Borneo during World War II have been remembered with the unveiling of a plaque at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. More than 2,500 Australian and ...

Governor-General Quentin Bryce and independent Federal MP Rob Oakeshott will be among those attending a memorial service for victims of the Sandakan death marches today. The Lismore service will ...

KOTA KINABALU: The annual Sandakan Memorial Day service to commemorate fallen Australian and British prisoners of war (POWs) and the Sandakan-Ranau death marches went virtual for the first time to ...

SANDAKAN, Aug 15 (Bernama) -- The Sandakan Memorial Day is an apt opportunity to reflect on the continued and shared desire for peace and reflect that war does nothing but destroy mankind, said Sabah ...

This park is created by the Australian Government together with the Sabah state government as a memorial to the soldiers who suffered and died here. Many brave soldiers lost their lives here.

“Holding this date in remembrance has fostered a resonance between Australia, Britain, and Sabah,” he said, at the Sandakan Memorial Day ceremony. “Sabah and specifically Sandakan will ...

which cost the lives of many Australian POWs. Mr White said he was in favour of a memorial to the local men who died at Sandakan.

THE Sandakan memorial has been restored a year after it fell victim to an act of vandalism which shocked the community. Vandals stole all but one letter from the memorial, at Stathdale Park ...