The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX4668 Private Noel Leslie Parker, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. 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 Parker, aged 24, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 19 March 1945. He was the son of Leslie Wellington Parker and Esther Annie Parker, of Weston, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 14. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX7351 Private Angus Joseph Gillies, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX18656 Private James Burgess, 2/26th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW ca
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX50946 Private George Allan McEwen, 2/18th 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 NX67672 Private James William Armstrong, 17th Dental Unit, Australian Army Dental Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX32237 Private Ernest Patteson, No. 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandak
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX55455 Private John Ferguson, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW ca
