Gurkhas relive what Death Marchers underwent
Published on: Sunday, May 15, 2022
By: Anna Vivienne
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Tham (right) with his guests.
SANDAKAN: Fifteen members of the Queen’s Gurkha Signals who recently revisited the 260km Death March route that claimed the lives of over 2,000 Australian and British troops said they felt sorry for what the brave soldiers endured at the closing stages of World War Two.Group leader Major Om Pun, 50, told Daily Express while they felt honoured to walk the steps of the fallen, it allowed them to experience what it could have been like then.
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