Borneo Sabah

 

This slideshow, based on dusty slides taken in mid-1966, shows the clearing of Hill 2360 in eastern Sabah for use as an altimeter-heighting base.

            
1.Movement Authority- Holdershaw 2. SAB0167-U04-JOCK HAMILTON, TINAGAT - Holdershaw 3. SAB0267-U05-SELF and T3R at TINAGAT - Holdershaw 4. SAB0367-U06-SELF and T3R, TINAGAT-02 - Holdershaw
5. SAB0467-U07-SELF and JOCK, BASE OF TINAGAT - Holdershaw 6. SAB0567-U08-CHRIS and SELF, FOOT OF TINAGAT - Holdershaw 7. SAB0668-U09-JOHN THE COOK, KK - Holdershaw 8. SAB0768-U11-CROSSING TO GAYA-02 - Holdershaw
9. SAB0868-U12-SELF AND PROF - Holdershaw 10. SAB0968-V01A-TAXI - Holdershaw 11. SAB1068-V02A-PROF JONES - Holdershaw 12. SAB1168-V03A-KAMPONG SEMBULANG - Holdershaw
13. SAB1268-V05A-CHRIS and JOCK, SPEEDY - Holdershaw 14. SAB1368-V06Aa-SELF and CHRIS, SPEEDY - Holdershaw 15. SAB1468-V07A-FOOTPATH UP SPEEDY - Holdershaw 16. SAB1568-V08Aa-WILD T3R, SPEEDY, P. GAYA - Holdershaw
17. SAB1668-V09Aa-WILD T3R-SPEEDY, P. GAYA - Holdershaw 18. SAB1768-V10A-VIEW FROM SPEEDY, WEST - Holdershaw 19. SAB1868-V12A-VIEW FROM SPEEDY, SOUTH - Holdershaw 20. SAB1968-V13A-JOCK and CHRIS, P. GAYA - Holdershaw
21. SAB2068-V17A-CHRIS and JOCK, WATER CANS - Holdershaw 22. SAB2168-V18A-ASCENT WITH WATER - Holdershaw 23. SAB2268-V19A-SELF LEVELLING T3R, SPEEDY - Holdershaw 24. SAB2368-V20A-SELF OBSERVING WITH T3R - Holdershaw
25. SAB2468-W01-JOCK at TUARAN - Holdershaw 26. SAB2568-W02-TUARAN BUS STATION - Holdershaw 27. SAB2668-W04-Kg. LABAYA, LEMBUS IN RIVER - Holdershaw 28. SAB2768-W06-LARGE GOATS, Kg. LABAYA - Holdershaw
29. SAB2868-W10-LEMBU at Kg. LABAYA - Holdershaw 30. SAB2968-W11a-DMU No. 58 APPROACHES KK - Holdershaw 31. SAB3068-W12-TRAVELLING POST OFFICE - Holdershaw 32. SAB3168-W14-SSR VULCAN 2-6-2 IN KK - Holdershaw
33. SAB3268-W15-SSR 2-6-2 No. 6-015 IN KK - Holdershaw 34. SAB3368-W17a-No. 6-015 APPROACHES KK - Holdershaw 35. SAB3468-W19-VIEW FROM TROOP HOUSE, KK - Holdershaw 46. Sabah - Keith Milburn  
36. Here I am with a Tellurometer near Tawau, North Borneo towards the end of 1962. I was an acting corporal, on detachment from 84 Survey Squadron. We were working on control for air photography, along the coast and offshore islands.

British North Borneo (now Sabah, Malaysia) was at this time still a crown colony and, as we were working for DOS we had to wear regulation white shirts, white shorts and white knee-length socks.

Note the Sterling sub-machine gun hanging from the beacon tripod. We had to carry weapons because of pirate activity in the area. This was before the Indonesian confrontation which started when Malaysia was created in 1963. In fact, a lot of our labourers were Indonesian.

I remember the other members of our team at this time were Captain Gathercole, Sgt. Alan Robinson, L/Cpls 'Spanner' Gratton and John Hale, and Sappers Mark Champion and Ross Hebbes. Ross was killed in a motorcycle accident in Singapore in October 1963. - Bud Moon
37. 1966 - 38. 39.    

Borneo Sabah 2007

          
40. The padang from in front of the old camp. - Keith Milburn 41. Padang looking towards old camp. - Keith Milburn 42. Road out of Tenom!- Keith Milburn 43. Station. - Keith Milburn
44. Tenom overview. - Keith Milburn 45. Town Plan. - Keith Milburn