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Quailey's Hill Memorial
Quailey's Hill Memorial (Malay: Tugu Peringatan Bukit Quailey's) is a memorial located in the district of Ranau in the Malaysian state of Sabah. It commemorates an Australian POWs, Allan Quailey who been killed in 16 February 1945 during the first Sandakan Death Marches by the Japanese soldiers.
== Background ==
Allan Quailey Clarence (born on 8 November 1920 in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia. On 5 August 1941, he joined as a volunteer in the Australian Imperial Force and assigned to the 2/30th Australian Infantry Battalion. With the 8th Division, he then sailed to Malaya but later been captured by the Japanese along with other 15,000 Australians as a prisoner during the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 and brought to Changi Prison. In July 1942, he was among the 1,500 Australians who were transferred aboard the SS Yubi Maru to Sandakan. On 31 January 1945, he was sent with other prisoners of war as "Group 3" on the first of the three death marches.
On 16 February, all of his friends in the group noticed that Quaileys will not survive as on a hill he arrived, he refused to go on; knowing the Japanese guards will kill anyone who could not keep up to the hill. Shortly after he was killed by the Japanese, his remains were shortly been keep after the war together with other corpses on a military cemetery in Labuan and buried as an "unknown soldier". Only in 1999, his identity been recovered and a plate with the inscription "Known unto God" been replaced by a personal grave stone.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Quailey's Hill Memorial )〕
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