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Skip Navigation LinksDVA>About DVA>Publications>Commemorative>Laden, Fevered, Starved: Sandakan
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  • Laden, Fevered, Starved: Sandakan
    • Remembering Sandakan
    • Found over sixty paybooks and various other articles
    • 'We are well. We are happy. We are well fed.'
    • 'Once you stopped, you stopped for good'
    • 'It was a one way trip'
    • 'They had not had any food for a week'
    • 'They killed the lot of them'
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Laden, Fevered, Starved title

Laden, Fevered, Starved Booklet
  • Remembering Sandakan
  • ‘Found over sixty paybooks and various other articles’
  • ‘We are well. We are happy. We are well fed’
  • ‘Once you stopped, you stopped for good’
  • ‘It was a one way trip’
  • ‘They had not had any food for a week’
  • ‘They killed the lot of them’
  • ‘If you escape the same thing will happen to you’
  • ‘Sydney was a long way from there’
  • Remembering Sandakan (1945-1999)
  • Material consulted in the preparation of this publication

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