The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX25894 Private John Sidney Pearce, 2/19th 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 Pearce, aged 27, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 7 June 1945. He was the son of Ernest Edward and Ethel May Pearce, of Bankstown, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 12. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX30613 Private Kenneth John Pearce, 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 NX49191 Private James Richard Kerr, 2/19th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan P
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX50396 Private Charles Gilbert Roy Power, 2/19th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the San
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX10814 Private Raymond Sidney Golding, 2/19th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandak
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX49504 Private Albert Walter Russell, 2/19th 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 NX10204 Private William George Cope, General Base Depot, . He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp in north
