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10-strong Death March walkers
Published on: Tuesday, April 25, 2023
By: Kan Yaw Chong
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The latest group of Aussie Death March walkers at Zudin Platform, Taviu Forest Reserve.
Kota Kinabalu: After a long three-year wait, 10 Australians, mostly ex-soldiers who never fought a war, finally got to experience what the 1945 Sandakan-Ranau Death March is like.They include group leader businessman Peter Hastie, Mark Stephenson, Elleot Politch, Peter Pyc, James Sullivan, Mathew Stephen, Darryn Foster, Matthew Deacon and Anthony Meaker who finally found out his uncle’s brother, James Bowe, died at the Sandakan POW Campsite.
Hastie, who brought his wife and two children to climb Mount Kinabalu in 2017, heard about the Death March and booked in 2019 for a planned April 2019 walking tour but Covid-19 killed the plan, said the group’s tour guide, Tham Yau Kong.
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