Kapit to Nanga Gaat photographs from 1995 / Kapit027
Photographer Brian Houldershaw
22/09/2005
Title..... NANGA GAAT MEMORIAL
THE MONUMENT AT NANGA GAAT, ERECTED IN 1965 BY LOCAL PEOPLE, IN MEMORY OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL NAVY AND THE PARACHUTE REGIMENT, WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN HELICOPTER ACCIDENTS IN THE HOSE MOUNTAINS AND AT NANGA GAAT. TWO WESSEX MK. I HELICOPTERS COLLIDED AND CRASHED INTO THE RIVER IMMEDIATELY IN FRONT OF THIS MONUMENT, RESULTING IN THE LOSS OF
TEN LIVES.
