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	Sandakan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sandakan is the second-largest town in the state of Sabah, East Malaysia, on the north-eastern of island of Borneo.
		It is the administrative centre of Sandakan Division and was the former capital of British North Borneo.
		In January 2003, the Sandakan Harbour Square, an urban renewal project, was launched in an attempt to revive the town centre as the commercial hub in Sandakan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sandakan (1114 words)

	Borneo - LoveToKnow 1911
		Borneo began to be known to Europeans after the fall of Malacca in 1511, when Alphonso d'Albuquerque despatched Antonio d'Abreu with three ships in search of the Molucca or Spice Islands with instructions to establish friendly relations with all the native states that he might encounter on his way.
		British North Borneo Or Sabah Sabah is the name applied by the natives to certain portions of the territory situated on the north-western coast of the island, and originally in no way included the remainder of the country now owned by the British North Borneo Company.
		As is common throughout Malayan lands, the trade of North Borneo is largely in the hands of Chinese shopkeepers who send their agents inland to attend the Tamus (Malay, temu, to meet) or fairs, which are the recognized scenes of barter between the natives of the interior and those of the coast.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Borneo (9275 words)

	North Borneo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		North Borneo was an independent state and British protectorate under the sovereign British North Borneo Company from 1882-1946, and subsequently a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1946-1963.
		The major towns had been razed to the ground by allied bombing, and the infastructure of North Borneo was in total devastation.
		A Governor and Commander-in-Chief was appointed to administer the colony of North Borneo with the assistance of an Advisory Council consisting of three ex-officio members: a Chief Secretary, the Attorney-General, and the Financial Secretary, together with other members both official and unofficial whom the Governor chose to appoint.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Borneo (1418 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Borneo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		It is bordered on the south by Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo).
		157,180), Sabah, Malaysia, on N Borneo, on Sandakan Harbor, an inlet of the Sulu Sea.
		Captain Burn and associates: British intelligence-gathering, trade, and litigation in Borneo and beyond during the early nineteenth century.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/01697.html (622 words)

	DVA - Publications - Laden, Fevered, Starved
		Their sections on Sandakan were based on the testimony of the six survivors and others who had escaped in earlier years from among those Australians brought to the area.
		This pressure for local remembrance of Sandakan was reflected in the eastern states by the establishment in 1993 of the Sandakan Memorial Foundation.
		Between 1993 and 1995 the Sandakan Memorial Foundation was instrumental in the erection of several Sandakan memorials at various locations in the eastern states--Burwood, Sydney; Tamworth, NSW; Wagga Wagga, NSW; Maitland, NSW; Bendigo, Victoria; and New Farm, Queensland.
	www.dva.gov.au /media/publicat/sandakan/sand10.htm (3536 words)

	Sandakan Death March; Japanese inhumanity
		He was instrumental in arranging a radio link with the outside world and was also responsible for organising the British North Borneo Constabulary and the loyal natives in Sandakan into readiness for an armed uprising against the Japanese.
		After the fall of Singapore and Borneo to the Japanese, a Prisoner of War Camp was established just outside of Sandakan to house approximately 750 British and more than 1650 Australian prisoners who were sent to the camp during the period 1942-43.
		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.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-battles/ww2/sandakan.htm (1295 words)

	Borneo
		It is the only war cemetery in North Borneo and was specially created as a cemetery for deceased POW's from all over Borneo.
		These remains and others taken from scattered graves throughout Borneo were taken to a then existing cemetery in Sandakan which was already laden with a large number of POW graves.
		The majority of unidentified graves is due to the destruction of all records of the camps in Borneo by the then Japanese Commander before his capture.
	www.cofepow.org.uk /remembrance/cemeteries/html/borneo.htm (378 words)

	Sandakan
		They arrived at the Sandakan, which was under the command of Captain Hoshijima Susumi, the prisoners were placed in Camp 1.
		The Japanese were now fearing an invasion of Borneo in the Sandakan area and to stop the prisoners falling into Allied hands, they decided to move the POW’s to Ranau some 260 kilometres away.
		The prisoners that had stayed at Sandakan were not fairing any better, starvation diets, and disease had taken their toll, 885 British and Australian prisoners had perished.
	www.far-eastern-heroes.org.uk /john_wanless/html/sandakan.htm (2659 words)

	Borneo Holidays Malaysia Sabah Travel Friendly Helpful and Knowledgeable
		Sandakan - Home of the headhunter, longhouses, ancient virgin rainforests and the largest caves in the world, Sarawak is a place full of history and exotic adventure.
		Formely British North Borneo now Known as "The Land Below the Wind" because it lies below the typhoon belt, Sabah is a tropical paradise where there is no shortage of good food to enjoy, tranquil places to stay, things to see, activities to do and the mystical attractions and marvels to experience.
		Sabah suffered heavily during the War and Sandakan and Kota Kinabalu were destroyed by American bombings in the dying days of the War.
	exquisiteborneo.com (1274 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Borneo
		The northern part of Borneo, now under British suzerainty, was separated from this immense vicariate, 27 August, 1855; that part of Borneo which is under Dutch rule was taken from the Vicariate Apostolic of Batavia, 11 February, 1905, and made into a separate prefecture under the care of the Capuchins.
		Up to the time of the separation what is now the Prefecture of Dutch Borneo was administered by the Jesuits who had charge of the Vicariate of Batavia, and who visited the Catholics of Dutch Borneo twice a year.
		English speaking missionaries being desired in the British part of Borneo, the Propaganda (19 Mareh, 1881) confided the mission of North Borneo and Labuan to the Soeiety for Foreign Missions of Mill-hill, England.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02687a.htm (843 words)

	Sandakan POW Camp N. Borneo
		Whether he died in camp at Sandakan and was buried in the jungle, or died on the forced march is not known.
		When the British officers left Sandakan there were 1793 Australians and 641 British but by the end of the war, only 6 Australians had survived by escaping during the 165 mile "Death Marches" to Ranau.
		At Sandakan the British were in a separate camp to the Australians with no communications allowed between them, so there is no account of the British prisoners after the officers left, however we can imagine that they suffered the same conditions as those described by the Australian prisoners.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~anderton/history/sandakan.html (2587 words)

	Sandakan
		Sandakan was made its capital in 1884, and remained so until its total devastation by allied bombing at the end of World War II, when the capital was transferred to Kota Kinabalu.
		Sandakan lies on a narrow strip of land between steep hills and the waters of the Sulu Sea.
		Sandakan's Muslim community is served by starkly simple Sandakan Mosque, built on the edges of the bay next to Kampung Buli Sim Sim.
	www.fortunecity.com /oasis/skegness/121/sdk.html (489 words)

	Borneo Things To Do - Travel Guides - VirtualTourist.com
		Sandakan is in Sabah and is the second-largest town in the state.
		Sandakan was burned to the ground in 1879 and William Pryer moved to where Sim Sim is still today.
		Sandakan continued to rebuild based on the timber industry, coffee, mining, fishing and in more recent years in tourism in particular as a start point for wildlife related eco-tourism.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Asia/Malaysia/Borneo-1295688/Things_To_Do-Borneo-R-2.html (2170 words)

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		As a member of the British Borneo Civic Affairs Unit, and later attached to the HQ 9th Division AIF (Labuan), Capt Moffitt gathered the evidence for, and conducted the prosecution of Captain Hoshijima, the commander of Sandakan POW camp from mid-1942 to May 1945.
		Sandakan was the site of a Japanese POW camp established in July 1942, occupied initally by 'B' Force composed of 1496 Australian POWs from Changi Prison in Singapore.
		Subjects covered include the war crimes trials in Borneo, principally Brunei and Sarawak (1945); war crimes trials in Labuan (1946), notably of Capt Hoshijima, Commandant of the Sandakan POW camp; the first Sandakan 'death march'; testimony concerning the conduct of the Japanese and civilians during the Japanese occupation of Borneo 1942-1945.
	www.awm.gov.au /findingaids/process.asp?collection=private&item=moffitt (2266 words)

	http://www.fsplanet.com/
		Sandakan (347,334 year 2000 census) is a town in Sabah, eastern Malaysia, on the island of Borneo.
		It is the administrative center of Sandakan Division (439,384 estimated district population 2003).
		Sandakan is famous as the gateway for ecotourism destinations such as the Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary, Turtle Islands Park, Kinabatangan River and Gomantong Cave.
	www.fsplanet.com /26082005.htm (996 words)

	Welcome to Borneo Books Internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Agnes Keith's ability to stay objective while writing of a savage beating by the internment camp commander demands admiration and we owe a lot to her for a fine set of memoirs.
		Agnes Keith was a young and promising journalist in San Francisco in November 1934 when her career was terminated when she was savagely mugged by a drug addict with a two foot iron pipe on the doorstep of the San Francisco Examiner.
		(Forty years later Sandakan experienced a timber boom and was said to have a higher density of millionaires than anywhere else in the world - but that was after her time).
	www.borneobooks.com /onlinestore/product_details.asp?id=1564 (512 words)

	Settled at Sandakan
		The colonial community at Sandakan to which David Baldwin belonged, and which his wife was about to join, is well documented by an American author, Agnes Keith.
		The roofs of the Chinese town were very red in the sun, and the tree-covered cliffs of the coast very green, and in the distance the mass of the jungle was a deeper, duller green.
		Agnes Keith was an American journalist and author born in 1901 who married an Englishman and went with him in 1934 to live in British North Borneo where he had been appointed Conservator of Forests and Director of Agriculture.
	www.far-eastern-heroes.org.uk /Baldwin/html/settled_at_sandakan.htm (1112 words)

	North Borneo Battlefield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Japanese Admiral Takahashi, encouraged by the success and rapidity of the Invasion of northern Borneo, sent Admirat Nishimura to expedite the next stage of the operation - the capture of the oil fields of Balikpapan.
		On the nigh: of January 22 1942 the japanese task force was spotted by a submarine patrol.
		Borneo was also the site of the infamous Sandakan Marches where the Japanese force-marched Prisoners of War from Sandakan to Ranau, some 250 kilometres through densely covered and treacherous terrain under the shadow of Mount Kinabalu.
	www.northborneo-battlefield.com (1020 words)

	(Gooud Family)
		In July 1942 Leslie was transferred from Singapore to Sandakan, North Borneo, along with some 1500 others aboard the Yubi Maru, an obsolete Australian cargo ship that had been sold to Japan for scrap.
		At Sandakan, the prisoners, along with others who arrived later, underfed and subject to grossly inhuman treatment, were forced to build an aerodrome in the jungle for the Japanese.
		A second march of 536 left Sandakan on 29 May, 183 of whom reached Ranau on 28th June, by which time only 6 survivors of the first march remained alive.
	users.bigpond.net.au /ghjmbest/Gooud/Gooud16C.htm (836 words)

	WHKMLA : History of North Borneo, 1918-1945
		North Borneo, because of the Chinese policy to prevent further emigration and because of a sluggish world economy after World War I, saw a rather quiet development compared to the prewar decades.
		Capital Sandakan was liberated by Australian forces on October 19th 1945.
		In 1931 the population of North Borneo numbered 270,223; in 1936 it was estimated at 285,000.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/seasia/nborneo191845.html (214 words)

	Saury
		On the 19th, the Japanese landed at Sandakan in North Borneo; and Saury arrived at Balikpapan to fuel and provision.
		By the 14th, she was off Timor; and, by the 16th, she was in the Flores Sea, en route to the Banda Sea and the eastern Celebes coast.
		On 4 August, the submarine shifted north in hope of better hunting; and, on the 6th, she sighted an unescorted freighter.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s6/saury.htm (2939 words)

	Sabah - Sandakan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Billed as the “Gateway to Borneo’s Wildlife’, Sandakan was the former capital when Sabah was known as British North Borneo.
		It is a blaze of red and gold, with writhing dragons, gilded Buddha's, hundreds of gleaming lamps and fragrance of burning incense.
		The riverine forest near the coast is so hemmed in by oil palm plantations that an astonishing variety of wildlife is both common and easy to see.
	www.abcmalaysia.com /tour_malaysia/sbh_sdkan.htm (412 words)

	WHKMLA : History of North Borneo, 1945-1963
		The capital was moved from Sandakan to JESSELTON (present Kota Kinabalu).
		Of great concern to the British administration was Indonesia's President SUKARNO, who denounced the British as imperialists and, in his policy of KONFRONTASI (confrontation) attempted to destabilize British rule in North Borneo, Sarawak and Malaya, all areas he wanted to annex into Indonesia.
		North Borneo, with its low population density, if released into independence, was not regarded a viable political entity, all the more as the Philippines also claimed the territory.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/seasia/nborneo194563.html (195 words)

	AII POW-MIA Issue Update October 1998
		Pallister was captured by the Japanese and became a victim of war atrocities at Sandakan camp, North Borneo.
		So, from planes being downed to ground capture, on through their cell life and rare public moments (e.g., being paraded through the streets of Hanoi for heckling, debris-throwing crowds), POW experiences are often shown exactly as recalled.
		As the article states, "The wartime-era North Vietnamese propaganda minister believed such extensive visual records were an inestimable tool in boosting morale." We can only wonder why it is that a film crew had access to film footage of captured personnel and unaccounted-for men that family members did not.
	www.aiipowmia.com /updates/updt1098.html (2967 words)

	Sandakan
		When compiling the Java Index it was noted that many of the British prisoners captured in Java, died at Sandakan, North Borneo.
		There were only six survivors out of the nearly 2500 Australian and British imprisoned at Sandakan so the records are not very detailed, but it hoped they will help those who lost loved ones.
		These pages are not meant to upset families but are written as a tribute to those who gave their lives for their country at Sandakan.
	www.roll-of-honour.org.uk /atrocities/sandakan (251 words)

	Sandakan-Ranau Death March
		Discipline at Sandakan was tightened considerably and life became much more difficult for the remaining 2,434 prisoners.
		At the end of May, there was a second march from Sandakan and in mid-June a third, comprised of only 75 men.
		Back at Sandakan, 200 prisoners unable undertake the second and third marches also died, bringing the death toll there to about 1400.
	www.sandakan-deathmarch.com /index.htm (989 words)

	An Sandakan Brothel: An Episode in the History of Lower Class Japanese Women, Vol. 8 - PowerBookSearch!
		Sent to Sandakan, North Borneo at age ten, she shared a fate with thousands of other young women in the name of Japanese colonial expansion.
		Sandakan Brothel No.8 presents the life story of a former karayuki-san, Osaki, as related to the author.
		Records the oral narrative of a Japanese women born at the beginning of the 20th century and sold at age ten into prostitution in North Borneo.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0765603535.html (723 words)

	COFEPOW - Stories - Sandakan Dedication Service
		It was not until after COFEPOW was formed that I learned about the Prisoners of War at Sandakan, North Borneo and the horrific details of the Death Marches.
		It was not until another member, John Bessant, whose father was also a victim of the same tragedy, wrote to me asking if we had any members who had lost their fathers at Sandakan, that I began to learn of the terrible events that took place.
		Tonie and Yvonne, being Sandakan family members, were asked to sign a visitors book giving their fathers' particulars.
	www.cofepow.org.uk /pages/stories_sandakan_dedication.htm (558 words)

	History of St.Mary
		Sandakan the former capital of Borneo is situated on the North East Coast of North Borneo, a former colony now known as the State of Sabah, a part of the Federation of Malaysia continues to be a popular tourist destination.
		The Orang Utan (Mias), the largest monkey of Borneo live in its natural habitat and one has to trek into the heart of a tropical rain forest to watch them at feeding time.
		Rooms are available for rental making it possible to watch the turtles coming in at night from the ocean to hatch their eggs.
	www.rc.net /malaysia/kotakinabalu/stmary/History.htm (557 words)

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