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SANDAKAN Malaysia Owen Campbell returned to Borneo last week back to the jungles where half a century ago his best mates were marched to their deaths.

. Wednesday 27 Apr 2022. About half died on the way killed by the effects of. The Sandakan Death Marches were a series of forced marches from Sandakan to Ranau in Borneo that resulted in the deaths of 2434 Allied prisoners of war held hostage by the Empire of Japan.

The Sandakan Death Marches were a series of forced marches from Sandakan to Ranau in Borneo that resulted in the deaths of 2434 Allied prisoners of war held hostage by the Empire of Japan. The deaths of almost 2500 allied prisoners of war at the Sandakan camps and death marches during World War II are among the worst atrocities committed against Australians at war. The tragic story of the Sandakan Death Marches which involved 3000 starving British and Australian prisoners-of-war on the Japanese-occupied island of Borneo in 1945.

The Sandakan Death Marches have been dramatised in the 2004 play Sandakan Threnody a threnody being a hymn of mourning composed as a memorial to a dead person. Between January and June 1945 more than 1000 malnourished POWs were force-marched to Ranau 260 kilometres from Sandakan. The official documents used to compile this article are all held in Australian National Archives or the Australian War Memorial.

The Sandakan camp commander Captain Takakura assembled these prisoners outside. The Sandakan Death Marches were a series of forced marches from Sandakan to Ranau in Borneo that resulted in the deaths of 2434 Allied prisoners of war held hostage by the Empire of Japan. Sabahs historical tourism attraction revolving around the infamous Sandakan Death March has restarted as the Covid-19 pandemic fades.

THE SANDAKAN-RANAU DEATH MARCH TRACK. The Japanese undertook a second death march on 29 May 1945 with 536 prisoners who could still stand on their feet.

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