The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX1717 Private Basil Beresford Chapman, Headquarters 8th Division, Australian Imperial Force. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo, having been transferred there from Singapore as a part of B Force. The 1494 POW's that made up B Force, were transported from Changi on 7 July 1942 on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, arriving in Sandakan Harbour on 18 July 1942. Private Chapman, aged 20, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 25 April 1945. He was the son of Charles Edmund and Nellie Vida Chapman, of Hurstville, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 8. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX17585 Warrant Officer Class 2 John James Chapman, 2/3rd Ordnance Store Company, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prison
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX42001 Private Stanley Howard Chapman, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandak
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX71505 Private Robert Stanley, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in th
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX49460 Private Francis Edward Dooley, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandaka
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX55051 Private Arthur Robert Steele, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX27779 Corporal Arthur William Chapman, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sanda
