After lunch, I decided to go to The War Memorial and Gardens and take some pictures for my blog. For those who have no idea of what kind of memorial it is, here are some short snippets for you.
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| The entrance fees for local RM2. Foreign citizen RM10 |
At the
foothills to Mount Kinabalu stands a memorial park dedicated to those
Australian and British servicemen who died as POWs in Sandakan and on
the Ranau Death Marches during World War Two (then known as British
North Borneo). The memorial also pays tribute to the local population
who risked their lives to assist the POWs. This is a magnificent tribute
that was built in 1962. A New Zealander, Major G.S. (Toby) Carter,
D.S.O. who enlisted in the Royal Australian Engineers and organised
native resistance in the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak initiated, and was
the driving force behind, the establishment of the Memorial and the
Park.
In recent years
the memorial gardens have been restored to their original beauty
through the effort and dedication of the guardian of the Kundasang War
Memorial, Sevee Charuruks.
It has four
separate gardens on different levels. An Australian Garden, a formal
English Garden of roses, a Borneo Garden with wild flowers of Kinabalu
and at the top level is the ' Comtemplation Garden' with a refection
pool and pergola.
Some pictures taken.
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| The Dedication |
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| Will Be Remembered |
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| GBU |
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| Many level at the memorial |
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| How sad... |
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| The casualties of war |
To be cont
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