Long Lama in the Baram. Carter noted that "In all our Guerilla activities we were most fortunate in not having sustained the loss of a single European, and native casualties had been light. On the other hand, casualties inflicted on the enemy had been considerable." In 1947 Carter was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his service in Sarawak. He had originally been recommended for appointment as Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Colonel H. A Campbell, director, Services Reconnaissance Department, but this recommendation was upgraded to the DSO by General Thomas Blamey. The recommendation remarks: According to one account, "Carter was assessed as an idealist, his overall actions being motivated by operational orders and a compassion for the goodwill of the natives. Intelligence gathering and guerrilla training were carried out as normal duties, but the Major never lost sight of the long term strategy of fostering goodwill, civil administration where possible for the return of British colonial rule." The local people with whom he worked called him "King Carter". Carter was withdrawn on surrender day to go to the Batu Lintang prisoner of war and civilian internment camp in Kuching, Sarawak to assess the civilian internees and assist in their evacuation to Labuan, where the AIF had two field hospitals, a casualty clearing station and a reception camp for released POWs and internees. Carter was chosen for this role as he knew many of the Sarawak oil field people and fellow New Zealand surveyors from North Borneo. In 1958 Carter was one of the senior Shell managerial staff at Seria, Brunei. Despite his wartime difficulties with Harrisson, they remained friends. In his 1959 book, World Within: A Borneo Story, Harrisson noted "Toby Carter and I kept our eye in, recently, by climbing Mt Kinabalu ... we stayed for days in the tiny Pakka Cave, at 10,000 ft. under the summit, looking out over the vast expanses of inside Borneo, once our peculiar empires." In 1962 Carter initiated 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. The Kundasang Memorial and Gardens commemorate the 2,428 Australian and British prisoners who died during World War II at the Sandakan POW Camp, and the casualties of the three infamous forced death marches from Sandakan to Ranau. It also serves as a tribute