Sandakan Death March Trek
2021- All Trek Dates. Sandakan Death March. Following The Death March Route Lynette Ramsay Silver Am Commencing on the 24 April 2020 this exciting 8 night 9 day trek will cover nearly 60kms of the Death March Tracks and will give you an insight into some of the reality that was the Sandakan Death Marches. Sandakan death march trek . During WWII he joined his father-in-law who was recruited by the Japanese to cut the trail to prepare for the marches. 12042017 The harrowing history of the Death March began in 1942 when Australian and British POWs who had previously been captured during the Battle of Singapore were shipped over to North Borneo to construct camps and an airstrip at Sandakan. 12062020 2The last known Sandakan Death Marches track cutter died in 2018. The second Sandakan Death March lasted for twenty-six days. 12022015 On 28 January 1945 the first of 455 PoWs in nine groups set off from Sandakan to march to Ranau on the 164-mile trek through the jungle and swamps...