Gary Followill

Gary Followill is a successful business owner of an international agricultural import/export company, turned military historian and writer. He has a lifelong interest in history and, in 2010, commenced a Master of Art degree in Military History at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra. Operation Kingfisher follows years of research at archives in Australia, Great Britain, and the United States of America. Gary uses previously unseen and recently released archival files to find the real story of the cancellation of the Sandakan POW rescue mission – Operation Kingfisher. His findings are completely different from previous theories on the reason over 2,500 POWs lost their lives on the Death Marches. The key to his findings was a file contained in the UK Archives and released in 2016 – the information within gave him the ‘smoking gun’ to confirm his theory.