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Selasa, 22 Mac 2016

Kundasang War Memorial

  fezlan        Selasa, 22 Mac 2016   

                  Kundasang War Memorial

                ( Tugu Peringatan Perang     Kundasang )

       Kundasang Sabah WarMemorial-01.jpg
The entrance gate.
Coordinates 5°59′15″N 116°34′37″E
Location Kundasang
Designer JC Robinson
Dedicated to The British and Australian soldiers who died in the Sandakan POW camp. Remembering also the suffering and sacrifice of the native populations of Sabah.


The Kundasang War Memorial (Malay: Tugu Peringatan Perang Kundasang) is a memorial located in Kundasang in the Malaysian state of Sabah, which is dedicated to the British and Australian soldiers who died in the Sandakan POW camp during their death marches to Ranau. Besides that, it also recognises the suffering and sacrifice of the native population of Sabah.





















   Australian Garden

The core of the Australian garden is the Australian flag and a bronze plaque with a heading titled "Kinabalu Kundasang War Memorial and Australia". There is also a panel documented in English and Malay with the title "The history of British and Australian prisoners of war in Sabah" created by artist Ross J. Bastiaan in 1998. Below the relief of Borneo was written in English the creation of the memorial. While in the lower middle part of the plate is a graphical representation of a roadmap during the death marches.


















English Rose Garden

This section, dedicated to the British POWs, is laid as a rose garden. A black marble slab with the flag of the United Kingdom bears this inscription:

Dedicated To The Lasting Memory Of The 641 British Servecemen
Who Died In Terrible Circumstances
In The Sandakan Prisoner Of War Camp
On The Death Marches And At Ranau 1943–1945
They Shall Grow Not Old, As We That Are Left Grow Old
Age Shall Not Weary Them, Nor The Years Condemn
At The Going Down Of The Sun And In The Morning
We Will Remember Them.
















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