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Three of the Survivors of The Sandakan-Ranau Death March. Writing a Good Friday sermon is difficult. The violence, injustice and incredible cruelty of the incident is overpowering. The machinations of those involved to maintain power and control, to manipulate those … Read More »
In the shadow of Mt Kinabalu dominating the Sabah skyline, I and small group of young people, parents and teachers, walked some 90 k’s in the footsteps of the Australian soldiers who perished on the Sandakan to Ranau death marches … Read More »
On the morning of the 25th April 1915 Australian soldiers stopped ashore at Gallipoli Cove and into the pages of our national history. Over and over again other soldiers, sailors and airmen and women in other wars, on other shores … Read More »
On September 27th 2010 I flew to Kota Kinabalu in Borneo to participate in retracing the footsteps of the Australian POW’s who, in 1945 undertook what is now known as the Sandakan – Ranau Death March. I joined a team … Read More »
AT 10 minutes to 1 on the 27th (tomorrow) I fly out with 2 students, an ex- student and a father to join 4 other students and a number of teachers and partners from Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar School to undertake … Read More »