Sandakan

Sandakan is what Elopura is known today

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Watch Video of Martin and Osa Johnson’s 1935-36 Adventure in North Borneo Here!

Martin and Osa Johnson’s North Borneo adventure in 1935-36 is now available to be watched on YouTube! Martin Elmer Johnson…

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North Borneo Historical Society T-Shirts with Vintage Stamp Print Available for Sale

Now you have a chance to show off to your friends, colleagues and the people around you how much you…

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Philippe B. Funk’s Rare and Beautiful North Borneo Picture Postcards

Philippe Funk was a Chinese Hakka from Sandakan, British North Borneo. He was the single most important publisher of printed…

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Three Came Home Movie: Agnes Keith’s Story in British North Borneo’s Sandakan During WWII

Three Came Home is based on a a true story of Agnes Newton Keith’s imprisonment in several Japanese prisoner-of-war camps…

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Watch this Short Video Documentary of The Sandakan Death March

Late last year, I posted an article about the Sandakan Death March of which six Australian POWs managed to escape….

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2500 Australian and British Prisoners of War (P.O.W.) Died During The Sandakan Death March in 1945

Sandakan, the prison compound in British North Borneo held 2,434 Australian and British POWs, captured when Singapore fell. They were…

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