SURVIVORS OF THE BORNEO DEATH MARCH ARRIVING AT SANDAKAN AIRPORT. LEFT TO RIGHT: OWEN CAMPBELL, ...

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Accession Number P00495.004
Collection type Photograph
Object type Transparency
Maker Unknown
Place made Borneo: North Borneo, Sandakan
Date made 1985
Conflict Period 1980-1989
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SURVIVORS OF THE BORNEO DEATH MARCH ARRIVING AT SANDAKAN AIRPORT. LEFT TO RIGHT: OWEN CAMPBELL, HARRY JACKSON, KEITH BOTTERILL AND NELSON SHORT. HARRY JACKSON WAS NOT A POW OR INVOLVED IN THE ACTUAL DEATH MARCH BUT RETRACED THE ROUTE IN 1946 AFTER THE CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES TO REWARD NATIVES WHO HAD HELPED THE AUSTRALIANS ON THE MARCH.