'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.' The weedgrown platform from whihc Lieutenant Colonel A W Walsh, senior Prisoner of war officer, mounted to advise the assembled priosners of war not to sign the pledge that they would not attempt to escape.