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- The Sandakan Death Marches were a series of forced marches in Borneo from Sandakan to Ranau which resulted in the deaths of 2,434 Allied prisoners of war held captive by the Empire of Japan during the Pacific campaign of World War II at the Sandakan POW Camp, North Borneo.
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The horrific Sandakan Death Marches are one of World War II's most brutal examples of how poorly prisoners of war were treated by their captors. In the closing years of the conflict, Japanese forces in occupied Borneo forced over 2,400 Allied POWs to endure a series of forced marches through dense jungle.
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The Sandakan Death Marches were a series of forced marches in Borneo from Sandakan to Ranau which resulted in the deaths of 2,434 Allied prisoners of war held captive by the Empire of Japan during the Pacific campaign of World War II at the Sandakan POW Camp, North Borneo. [1]
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In 1942, Japan began transferring about 2,500 allied prisoners of war from fallen Singapore to Sandakan, in northern Borneo, to build an airfield. Over the years, some of the POWs were forced to march hundreds of kilometres through the dense jungle only to arrive at camps with few provisions. Many were beaten, starved, and left ravaged by disease. ...
It was that same desire, to reveal the details of Sandakan and the death marches, that finally led to the memorial championed by Ted McLaughlin being erected in Boyup Brook in 1991. What started as a story told by Mr McLaughlin, soon became something shared by the community. The following year the local council funded a second memorial and a decade...
Now 19, Jack said the experience taught him how to stay motivated and pushed him to achieve his dream of studying medicine. He is grateful that his high school in Boyup Brook encouraged him to learn this important chapter of World War II history. "I think young people should be aware of the marches and our history because it builds who we are as Au...
The Sandakan Death Marches were a series of forced marches in Borneo from Sandakan to Ranau which resulted in the deaths of 2,428 Allied prisoners of war held captive by the Empire of Japan during the Pacific campaign of World War II in the Sandakan Prisoner of War (POW) Camp.
In 1945, when the Japanese started to realise that the war may have been lost, and the Allies were closing in, the emaciated prisoners were force marched, in three separate marches, to the village of Ranau in the jungle, 250 km away, under the shadows of Mount Kinabalu.
This movement of POWs from Sandakan to Ranau, where they were halted owing to Allied air activity at Jesselton, became known as the ‘death marches’. Only six of the more than 1000 POWs who set off to Ranau survived the ordeal.
Aug 26, 2005 · The Sandakan to Ranau Death March. Sandakan is on the East coast of Borneo and Ranau, on the West. Figures vary, but are generally reckoned as, 2500 Australian and 700 R.A.F, Japanese prisoners...
