Qualla: Last POW Camp Memorial https://qualla.com/last-pow-camp-memorial en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/4/c/last-pow-camp-memorial-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Last POW Camp Memorial https://qualla.com/last-pow-camp-memorial Last POW Camp Memorial: Introduction https://qualla.com/last-pow-camp-memorial/ Photo credit CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0. There are 1,047 river stones set into a concrete star on a hillside above the Liwagu Valley. Each one was pulled from the Liwagu River below, and each one represents a human being: a British or Australian prisoner of war who began the Sandakan Death Marches during the final years of World War II. Of the 1,047 who started, only 189 reached this site near Ranau. Of those 189, all but four died within weeks, killed by starvation, disease, or murder. The Last POW Camp Memorial stands where the camp stood, on private land whose owner decreed it should remain a memorial forever.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/4/c/last-pow-camp-memorial-wp/w94c-last-pow-camp-memorial-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Last POW Camp Memorial: The Marches That Left No One https://qualla.com/last-pow-camp-memorial/ Photo credit CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Sandakan Death Marches were among the worst atrocities committed against Allied prisoners of war in the Pacific Theater. Beginning in January 1945, Japanese forces marched British and Australian POWs from the Sandakan camp on Sabah's east coast westward through 260 kilometers...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/4/c/last-pow-camp-memorial-wp/w94c-last-pow-camp-memorial-the-marches-that-left-no-one.mp3 0:06 2 full Last POW Camp Memorial: A Historian and a Landowner https://qualla.com/last-pow-camp-memorial/ Photo credit CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0. The camp's location was lost for decades after the war. Its rediscovery is credited to Australian historian Lynette Silver, who spent years researching the death marches and tracing the route through Sabah's interior. The land where the camp stood turned out to be privately owned...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/4/c/last-pow-camp-memorial-wp/w94c-last-pow-camp-memorial-a-historian-and-a-landowner.mp3 0:06 3 full Last POW Camp Memorial: Stones for the Dead https://qualla.com/last-pow-camp-memorial/ Photo credit CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0. The memorial's design is spare and devastating. On a large concrete surface shaped like a star, 1,047 boulders from the Liwagu River have been embedded, one for each prisoner of war who began the marches. Rising from the center, a concrete stele contains 183 additional river ston...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/4/c/last-pow-camp-memorial-wp/w94c-last-pow-camp-memorial-stones-for-the-dead.mp3 0:06 4 full Last POW Camp Memorial: The Route That Remembers https://qualla.com/last-pow-camp-memorial/ Photo credit CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Last POW Camp Memorial is the final station on the marked POW Route, a series of signposted locations tracing the path of the death marches from Sandakan to Ranau. The route passes through some of Sabah's most remote terrain, crossing rivers and climbing ridgelines that would...

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