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Inscription ID:1237
Brief Description:Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial, Brisbane QLD Australia
Type:War memorial
Detail:Bronze & granite monument with bronze plaques remembers Queenland prisoners of war who died at Sandakan & Ranau & on death marches in WWII. There is also a plaque naming 29 survivors.
Inscription:….THIS MEMORIAL HONOURS QUEENSLANDERS WHO DIED AT SANDAKAN, ON THE DEATH MARCHES AND AT RANAU WE WILL REMEMBER THEM SANDAKAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION….THIS MEMORIAL WAS UNVEILED BY THE HONOURABLE SIR WALTER CAMPBELL A.C. Q.C. AND WAS DEDICATED BY FATHER JOHN BRENDAN ROGERS, O.F.M. EIGHTH DIVISION CHAPLAIN, SANDAKAN AND KUCHING 24TH SEPTEMBER 1995....THIS PLAQUE RECORDS THE NAMES OF QUEENSLAND POW WHO SURVIVED IMPRISONMENT IN SANDAKAN CAMP....UNVEILED FEBRUARY 2011 BY TREASURER OF QUEENLAND HON. ANDREW FRASER
Place:New Farm Park, Oxlade Drive, New Farm, Brisbane
County:Queensland
Country:Australia
Date:1942-2011
Contributor:Marilyn Astle
Photo(s):Sandakan1AU_160424.jpg
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