Abandoned?: Australians at Sandakan, 1945

Don Wall was country-born and educated in Narrandera and Goulburn, New South Wales.

In 1940 he enlisted in the A.I.F. and sailed for Malaya on the Queen Mary in February 1941 with the 2/20th Battalion of the 8th Division.

He "served his time" on the Burma-Thailand Railway and was part of the team which operated a secret radio in Changi Gaol. He was Mentioned in Despatches.

Post-war he specialised in exploration but he could not forget the agony of his mates under the Japanese. He set out to record the human story of the 8th Division Diggers. "Singapore and Beyond" and "Sandakan - The Last March" gave the world a vast amount of new information.

"Abandoned" his third book describes the events which contributed to the fate of 8th Division POWs at Sandakan.