In 2005, an Australian historian Lynette Silver tracked down the original route of the Sandakan Death Marches, together with a Malaysian local trekking experts Tham Yau Kong.
On 14 July 2007, the monument during a ceremony by Masidi Manjun (Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment of Sabah), Senator Anne McEwen (Senator for South Australia), Lynette Silver and Goh Mung Chwee (Managing Director of Sabah Tea) was inaugurated [REF].