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Reliving the Death March trail from Sandakan to Ranau
Published on: Tuesday, August 13, 2024
By: Mardinah Jikur
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Reliving the Death March trail from Sandakan to Ranau
Members of the tour visit Sandakan Memorial Park which is also a place to commemorate the World War II and the Death March.
SANDAKAN: Some 107 Australian Army personnel experienced the Death March trail from Sandakan to Ranau, recently.

Contingent Commander, Rifle Company Butterworth (RCB) 144, Major Jamie Frisby, said, they were honoured and very fortunate to have had experience and getting to know what happened in Death March.

In the closing stages of the war in 1945 some 2,000 Australian and British soldiers were forced to march through the jungle from Sandakan to Ranau.

Only six survived.

The rest died from starvation and disease or killed along the route.

It is the first time they joined the tour after their Joint Exercise in Kota Belud.

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