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 ...

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

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 ...

THE concept of a memorial in Lismore to remember locals who lost their lives at the notorious Sandakan POW Camp or on the equally notorious death marches has attracted a lot of attention.

Ted McLaughlin was a POW who worked on the Burma-Thailand railway during WW2 He paid for Boyup Brook's first Sandakan memorial in 1991 Every year a local high school student from Boyup Brook wins ...

Many brave soldiers lost their lives here. The Sandakan Memorial Park commemorates the lives of thousands of allied prisoners of war who perished in Borneo at the hands of their Japanese captors.

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 ...