The Japanese shipped 2 500 allied Prisoners of War, from the notorious prison camp at Changi into Sandakan, to build a military airstrip. Among the POWS were 2,000 Australians.

In July that year they were among 1500 POWs sent to Sandakan, in Borneo, to build an airstrip. Over the ensuing months further drafts brought the camp population to about 2500.

He died in the Sandakan prisoner of war camp on November 21, 1944. ... Only five per cent Australian soldiers survived the prison-of-war camps in Changi, Sandakan and Kuching.

To some he was a shirker. To others a bully, a ­collaborator, or worse. Everyone at Sandakan POW camp in Borneo knew Bill Sticpewich, and few liked him. One of only six prisoners to survive the ...

Only six Australians, of 1787 fellow countrymen and 641 Britons, survived the Sandakan camp, the 265km “death march” through mountainous jungle to Ranau, and the wretched destination itself.

KOTA KINABALU: Climate change education took a meaningful turn for 40 youths as they stepped into the rainforest during a three-day experiential learning camp in Sandakan.

The Scabby Bath at Outram Road Prison 1943(Painting by Bill Young). Young’s first attempt at escape was on the Yubi Maru, during one of his many toilet breaks.On seeing the distant lights of a ...

One of 2500 prisoners of war who died in Borneo’s notorious Sandakan prison and on the horrific Death ... 1787 Australians and 641 British died at the camp or while being used as an ever ...

It came from Sandakan, North Borneo, ... TODAY, from the safety of the North American continent, I look back over three and a half years spent in Japanese prison camps in Borneo.

KOTA KINABALU: Billy Young, the last surviving prisoner of war (POW) from the infamous Sandakan Camp, has died from complications caused by Covid-19. He was 96.

SEVENTY years ago this town was known as Elopura — meaning, in Sanskrit, “Beautiful City”; now it is Sandakan, North Borneo, officially described as “the worst-destroyed town in the Far ...

“The Sandakan-Ranau death march began at the Sandakan prison camp at Batu 8, and ended at the Ranau prison camp, spanning a total distance of 265km, and took 10 days to complete,” he told ...