| Date from | 01 March 1945 |
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| Date to | 30 September 1945 |
| Place | Sarawak |
| Category | Operation |
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Operation Semut III
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 William Sochon VB325894, 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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- Carter, Gordon Senior
- Barrie, John Keith
- Astill, Robert Arthur
- Baker, Ronald James
- Beiers, Pierre William
- Bell, Eric Joseph
- Perry, Richard Charles
- McCallum, Alexander James Hugh
- Dawson, Roy Oliver
- Sochon, William Lomas Philip
- Fredericks, Harold Richmond
- Hayes, John Delaine
- Onslow, John Douglas
- Rippin, Walter Harold
- Courtney, Godfrey Basil
- Graham, Neville Bruce
- Gilman, Norman Ellis Rusden
- Kearney, David John
- Burrow, Francis Wallis
- Bradbury, Ross William
- Felstead, Milton
- Fowler, Hubert Norman
- Hartley, John Frederick
- Heron, Charles Edward
- Oldham, Frank Rassendale
- Outhwaite, Richard Martin
- Phillpot, Gordon Henry
- Spurling, Edric Ray
- Stokes, John Lewis
- Walpole, Brian Blayney
- Lansi, Bin Eusop
- Croton, Ronald James
- Lambert, Frederick