'Sandakan-Ranau Death Marches Reward Mission. At the latter end of 1946, a military mission in ...

'Sandakan-Ranau Death Marches Reward Mission. At the latter end of 1946, a military mission in charge of Major H W S Jackson, representing the Australian Government, and Major R K Dyce, representing the British Government, was sent to British North Borneo to repay and reward the natives who aided and succoured the Australian prisoners of war during the infamous Sandakan-Ranau death marches. In addition to other military personnel, Mr C Simpson went as writer for the ABC and BBC, and Mr W MacFarlane as recording technician. The Mission retraced stretches of the actual Death March track, and in all travelled 185 miles on foot.' Kulung, the Orang Kaia (Headman of a group of villages) at Paginatan. He lived in the area during the Japanese occupation and waged a one man guerilla war on their forces. He materially assisted in the rescue of Gunner Owen Campbell, one of the six survivors out of a total of 2400 Australian and British prisoners of war engaged in the Sandakan-Ranau Death Marches.