| Date from | 01 March 1945 |
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| Date to | 30 September 1945 |
| Place | Sarawak |
| Category | Operation |
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Operation Semut I
Description
Operation carried out by the Australian Army's Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD) Z Special Unit during the Second World War as part of the Australian Borneo Campaign. The operation, commanded by Major Tom Harrisson VB300861, focussed on the objectives of collecting and reporting intelligence and organising, training and arming local inhabitants into resistance groups to wage guerrilla warfare.
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- Long, Bertram Charles
- Griffiths-Marsh, Roland
- Edmeades, Eric Arthur
- Sanderson, Charles Frederick
- Bower, Douglas Norman
- Barrie, John Keith
- Hallam, Kelvin Walter
- Harrisson, Tom Harnett
- Pinkerton, Robert John Donald
- Lundgren, Charles Ernest
- Wheelhouse, Allen Scot
- Bartram, Paul
- Bennett, Ray Clarence
- Blondeel, Alfred George
- Leckie, Francis James
- Westley, Jeffery
- Dawson, Roy Oliver
- McCallum, Ian Archibald Neil
- Edlin, George
- Fredericks, Harold Richmond
- McPherson, Colin William
- Griffiths, Robert Charles
- Henry, Philip
- Hirst, Herbert Reuben
- Sterelny, Igor Alexander
- Hayes, John Delaine
- Onslow, John Douglas
- Rippin, Walter Harold
- Nibbs, William George Phillip
- Da Roza, Charles Bruno
- Rawling, Victor Merrick
- Wigzell, Frank
- Campbell, Royston Harold
- Roots, William
- Gibbs, Ronald John
- Richter, Gordon Thomas
- Smith, Stuart Reginald
- Hardy, Charles McPherson
- Finlay, John Euston Bell
- Le Guier, Keith Allan
- Pippen, Francis Vincent
- Ellis, Everard
- Cusack, Roderick Douglas Clive
- Tredrea, Jonathan 'Jack'
- Thornton, Colin Reginald