'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.' Members of the Mission with a native and their jeep in a former Japanese dispersal area. A wrecked Japanese Zero aircraft can be seen in the left background. From the left they are, Mr C. Simpson, Writer for the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the British Broadcasting Corporation; Johnny Funk, a North Borneo native; Mr W. MacFarlane, Sound Technician and V18803 Major H.W.S. Jackson, Leader and Government Representative of the Mission.