It commemorates an Australian POWs, Allan Quailey who been killed on 16 February 1945 during the first Sandakan Death Marches by the Japanese soldiers.

[1] 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.

The management of the plantation approved the proposal and also agreed to set up a monument with a granite slab, which explained the circumstances of Quailey's death.

An Australian Prisoner of War, Private Allan Quailey, 2/30 Battalion AIF, Was Killed Near This Spot On 16 February 1945, While On The First Sandakan-Ranau Death March.

He Was One Of The 2.428 Australian And British Prisoners Of War Who Died At Sandakan, Ranau Or On One Of The Three Death Marches, 1942–1945 Aged 24 Years.