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. He enlisted with the British Army during the war, and served in the Royal Australian Engineers and later in Z Special Unit in Borneo, where he was the Officer in Command of the Semut II operation in the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak. In 1962 Carter had the initial idea for and was the driving force behind the establishment of both the Kinabalu National Park and the Kundasang War Memorial and Gardens near Mount Kinabalu in Sabah. Life Carter was educated at Mount Albert Grammar School, Auckland. Described as "a courteous, soft-spoken, long, lean New Zealander" Carter worked for Shell as an oilfield surveyor in Sarawak, and had pre-war experience of the Baram-Tinjar River basin there. Carter avoided internment on the Japanese invasion of the country in December 1941 (it is unclear whether he escaped or was out of the country at the time); he joined the Royal Australian Engineers in Brisbane in 1942 and saw service in the New Guinea campaign before joining Z Special Unit and later transferring to the British Army and the Services Reconnaissance Department. Initially in charge of all Semut operations in Borneo, difficulties with the notoriously prickly Major Tom Harrisson led to the splitting of the operation into several units, Semuts I (led by Harrisson), II (led by Carter), III (led by Major W. Sochon, DSO) and IV. Carter was inserted by parachute drop on 16 April 1945 with seven other members of Z Special Unit to the Baram River area, near Long Akah. The area was probably chosen as Carter had pre-war experience of it. As with other Z Special Unit operations, Carter's Semut II unit was involved with intelligence gathering, and the recruitment of and training of local people in the guerilla war against the Japanese. The native intelligence network established by Semut II provided information on Japanese dispositions and troop movements in the Labuan, Miri, Lutong, Kuala Belait and Upper Rejang areas; enemy outposts, hideouts and depots were known, as well as cross-country evacuation routes that the Japanese might use. The 350-strong native guerilla force organised, armed and led by Semut II engaged with skirmished with the enemy. On 6 May 1945 Semut II captured the Japanese wireless station at