Qualla: Quailey's Hill Memorial https://qualla.com/quailey-s-hill-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/9/5/1/quailey-s-hill-memorial-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Quailey's Hill Memorial https://qualla.com/quailey-s-hill-memorial Quailey's Hill Memorial: Introduction https://qualla.com/quailey-s-hill-memorial/ Photo credit CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0. Allan Quailey Clarence was twenty-four years old when he stopped walking. It was 16 February 1945, and he was on the first of three forced marches from the Sandakan POW camp to Ranau, through the jungle interior of North Borneo. His fellow prisoners in Group 3 could see that he would not survive. On a hill along the route, Quailey refused to go on. He knew what would happen. The Japanese guards killed anyone who could not keep up. He was killed there, on that hill, and for sixty years no one knew exactly where. Today, a granite memorial on the grounds of the Sabah Tea Plantation marks the spot where Allan Quailey died, on a slope now covered in tea bushes and bordered by a white fence.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/5/1/quailey-s-hill-memorial-wp/w951-quaileys-hill-memorial-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Quailey's Hill Memorial: From Lismore to Sandakan https://qualla.com/quailey-s-hill-memorial/ Photo credit CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0. Allan Quailey Clarence was born on 8 November 1920 in Lismore, New South Wales. On 5 August 1941, he volunteered for the Australian Imperial Force and was assigned to the 2/30th Australian Infantry Battalion. With the 8th Division, he sailed to Malaya -- and into catastrophe. Whe...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/5/1/quailey-s-hill-memorial-wp/w951-quaileys-hill-memorial-from-lismore-to-sandakan.mp3 0:06 2 full Quailey's Hill Memorial: The Hill He Named https://qualla.com/quailey-s-hill-memorial/ Photo credit CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0. The death marches from Sandakan to Ranau covered roughly 260 kilometers of jungle. Prisoners who could not maintain the pace were executed. Quailey, weakened by nearly three years of captivity, made it sixteen days before his body gave out on a hill deep in the interior. His frie...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/5/1/quailey-s-hill-memorial-wp/w951-quaileys-hill-memorial-the-hill-he-named.mp3 0:06 3 full Quailey's Hill Memorial: Finding the Spot https://qualla.com/quailey-s-hill-memorial/ Photo credit CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 2005, Australian historian Lynette Silver set out to trace the original route of the Sandakan death marches. Working with Malaysian trekking expert Tham Yau Kong, she discovered that portions of the old trail passed through land now managed by Sabah Tea, a commercial tea plant...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/5/1/quailey-s-hill-memorial-wp/w951-quaileys-hill-memorial-finding-the-spot.mp3 0:06 4 full Quailey's Hill Memorial: A Name Restored https://qualla.com/quailey-s-hill-memorial/ Photo credit CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0. What makes Quailey's Hill unusual among war memorials is its specificity. This is not a monument to a battle, a campaign, or even a group of fallen soldiers. It is a marker for one man on one hill on one day. The granite slab tells his story in English: where he was born, how he ...

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