The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX20300 Gunner Douglas Charles MacKinnon, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. 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 E Force. The 500 Australian and 500 British POW's who made up E Force, left Changi on 28 March 1943, on board the S.S. DeKlerk arriving at Berhala Island (adjacent to Sandakan Harbour) on 15 April 1943. The POW's were held there until 5 June, when they were taken by barge to Sandakan. The next day they were transferred to the 8 Mile Camp, which was about half a mile from the B Force compound. Gunner MacKinnon, aged 29, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 1 July 1945. He was the son of Archibald Hector and Agnes Cameron MacKinnon, of North Sydney, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 4. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX28362 Gunner William Thompson, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the S
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX7811 Gunner John August Ernst, 2/10th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the S
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX9629 Gunner Edward William Wiseman, 22nd Independent Brigade Group Ordnance Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX4745 Gunner Rex Robert Flavell, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX7113 Gunner Gerard Nicholson, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sa
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX10233 Gunner John Francis Donald Nicholson, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW)
