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G. S. Carter

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Major Gordon Senior 'Toby' Carter DSO (20 April 1910 – 1988) was a New Zealand surveyor and road engineer who worked in Sarawak, Borneo prior to World War II for Shell Oil. [1]

37 relations: Auckland, Australian Army, Australian War Memorial, Baram River, Batu Lintang camp, Borneo, British Army, Distinguished Service Order, Jack Wong Sue, Kelabit Highlands, Kinabalu Park, Kuching, Kundasang, Labuan, Long Akah, Mount Albert Grammar School, Mount Kinabalu, New Guinea, North Borneo, Operation Semut, Order of the British Empire, Ranau, Roland Griffiths-Marsh, Royal Australian Engineers, Sabah, Sandakan, Sandakan Death Marches, Sarawak, Second Australian Imperial Force, Seria, Services Reconnaissance Department, Surveying, The National Archives (United Kingdom), Thomas Blamey, Tom Harrisson, World War II, Z Special Unit.

Auckland

Auckland is a city in New Zealand's North Island.

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Australian Army

The Australian Army is Australia's military land force.

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Australian War Memorial

The Australian War Memorial is Australia's national memorial to the members of its armed forces and supporting organisations who have died or participated in wars involving the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Baram River

The Baram River (Sungai Baram) is a river in Sarawak on the island of Borneo.

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Batu Lintang camp

Batu Lintang camp (also known as Lintang Barracks and Kuching POW camp) at Kuching, Sarawak on the island of Borneo was a Japanese internment camp during the Second World War.

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Borneo

Borneo (Pulau Borneo) is the third largest island in the world and the largest in Asia.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.

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Distinguished Service Order

The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the Commonwealth of Nations, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.

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Jack Wong Sue

Jack Wong Sue, (12 September 1925 – 16 November 2009), also known as Jack Sue, was a Chinese Australian from Perth, Western Australia.

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Kelabit Highlands

The Kelabit Highlands are a mountain range located in the northernmost part of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo.

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Kinabalu Park

Kinabalu Park (Taman Kinabalu), established as one of the first national parks of Malaysia in 1964, is Malaysia's first World Heritage Site designated by UNESCO in December 2000 for its "outstanding universal values" and the role as one of the most important biological sites in the world with more than 4,500 species of flora and fauna, including 326 bird and around 100 mammal species, and over 110 land snail species.

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Kuching

Kuching (Jawi), officially the City of Kuching, is the capital and the most populous city in the state of Sarawak in Malaysia.

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Kundasang

Kundasang is a town in the district of Ranau in Sabah, Malaysia that lies along the bank of Kundasang Valley.

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Labuan

Labuan (Jawi: لابوان), officially the Federal Territory of Labuan (Malay: Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan, Jawi: ولايه ڤرسكوتوان لابوان), is a federal territory of Malaysia.

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Long Akah

Long Akah (also known as Long Aka) is a settlement in interior of the Marudi division of Sarawak, Malaysia, on the upper reaches of the Baram river.

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Mount Albert Grammar School

Mount Albert Grammar School (MAGS) is a semi co-educational state secondary school in Mount Albert in central Auckland, New Zealand.

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Mount Kinabalu

Mount Kinabalu (Gunung Kinabalu) is a mountain in Sabah, Malaysia.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Nugini or, more commonly known, Papua, historically, Irian) is a large island off the continent of Australia.

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North Borneo

North Borneo (usually known as British North Borneo, also known as the State of North Borneo) was a British protectorate located in the northern part of the island of Borneo.

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Operation Semut

Operation SEMUT was a series of reconnaissance operations carried out by Australia's Z Special Unit during World War II as part of the Borneo Campaign at Sarawak, northwestern Borneo.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Ranau

Ranau (Pekan Ranau) is the capital of the Ranau District in the West Coast Division of Sabah, Malaysia.

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Roland Griffiths-Marsh

Roland Griffiths-Marsh, (22 April 1923 – 29 December 2012) was an Australian soldier and author.

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Royal Australian Engineers

The Royal Australian Engineers (RAE) is a corps of the Australian Army (although the word corps does not appear in their name or on their badge).

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Sabah

Sabah is a state of Malaysia located on the northern portion of Borneo Island.

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Sandakan

Sandakan (Jawi) formerly known at various times as Elopura, is the capital of the Sandakan District in Sabah, Malaysia.

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Sandakan Death Marches

The Sandakan Death Marches were a series of forced marches in Borneo from Sandakan to Ranau which resulted in the deaths of 2,345 Allied prisoners of war held captive by the Empire of Japan during the Pacific campaign of World War II in the Sandakan POW Camp.

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Sarawak

Sarawak is a state of Malaysia.

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Second Australian Imperial Force

The Second Australian Imperial Force (Second, or 2nd, AIF) was the name given to the volunteer personnel of the Australian Army in World War II.

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Seria

Seria is a coastal town on the north-east coast of the island of Borneo, in the Bruneian district of Belait.

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Services Reconnaissance Department

The Special Operations Australia (SOA), previously known as the Inter-Allied Services Department (ISD) and later given the cover name of the Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD), was an Australian military intelligence and special reconnaissance unit, during World War II.

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Surveying

Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, and science of determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them.

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The National Archives (United Kingdom)

The National Archives (TNA) is a non-ministerial government department.

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Thomas Blamey

Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blamey, (24 January 188427 May 1951) was an Australian general of the First and Second World Wars, and the only Australian to attain the rank of field marshal.

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Tom Harrisson

Major Tom Harnett Harrisson, DSO OBE (26 September 1911 – 16 January 1976) was a British polymath.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Z Special Unit

Z Special Unit—also known as Special Operations Executive (SOE), Special Operations Australia (SOA) or the Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD)—was a joint Allied special forces unit formed during the Second World War to operate behind Japanese lines in South East Asia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._S._Carter

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