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FROM AN ARMY CAMP TO A TEACHERS' COLLEGE Batu Lintang Teacher Training College |
Batu Lintang Teachers' College
| The Australian government will provide A$40,000 (RM125,900) towards upgrading a memorial in Malaysia, which marks the site where more than 3,000 Australian and other allied prisoners of war were held.
Batu Lintang POW Campsite Memorial in Kuching served as a lasting
reminder of the brutal treatment endured by thousands of Australians
during World War II. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/4/5/sarawak/11049918&sec=sarawak |
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FROM AN ARMY CAMP TO A TEACHERS' COLLEGE Batu Lintang Teacher Training College |
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The book written quite sometime ago (1995) is an account of Batu Lintang -
how it progressed from being a camp for the British Army towards becoming a
Prisoner of War camp for the British and Allied Forces captured by the
Japanese and then becoming a Japanese POW camp run by the Allied Forces
before finally becoming the Batu Lintang Teachers Training College by the
late 1940s. What most Bruneians do not know also is that the association of this camp with Brunei. It housed the Punjab Platoon that was supposed to protect Brunei but in reality only burned the oil rigs from falling to the Japanese (the Japanese managed to stop the fire and actually managed to get production still), those same soldiers were then captured and kept as POW, some Bruneians who joined as policemen during the Japanese occupation was also kept as prisoners when the Allied Forces occupied Brunei and finally when it became a college, a number of early Brunei teachers were trained there as well as a number of Brunei students (the college also ran a school).
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LIST OF TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGES AND INSTITUTES IN MALAYSIA
Institut Bahasa |
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INDEX : Tawau Teacher College 26-9-2008 April 07, 2012 09:56:32 AM |
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