Boyup Brook War Memorial

Transcribed by Lorraine Larment
from photographs provided by Steve and Marylin Jones

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Boyup Brook War Memorial

A statue stands with the following inscribed on a plaque:
"In recognition of Ted McLaughlin, a local farmer and ex-POW who was determined that his mates who died on the infamour death marches from Sandakan to Ranau in Northern Borneo during the final days of WW2 would not be forgotten.
Almost single-handedly he brought to the attention of the Australian public this period of history that had been denied the recognition that it deserved by erecting this memorial in 1991 in honour of his fellow POWs"

In memory of
those who
gave their lives
during the Sandakan Death March
Borneo 1945

SANDAKAN
RANAU
NORTH BORNEO

This memorial commemorates the 2000 Australians who died as Prisoners of the Japanese at Sandakan Camp and on the death march to Ranau in North Borneo during 1944-45. Of the 2500 Australian and British P.O.W. in Sandakan - only 6 survived.
Recorded are the names of the 130 Western Australian P.O.W. who died in Borneo. It's centrepiece is the original memorial erected by E. McLaugllin of Boyup Brook in 1991.