P02467.139 Accession Number: P02467.139

Description

NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX26026 Lance Corporal Neville Henry Taylor, 2/18th 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 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. Lance Corporal Taylor, aged 32, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 5 June 1945. He was the son of Joseph Henry and Florence Taylor, of Kingswood, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 10. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

Details

People

• Lance Corporal Neville Henry Taylor

Rolls

• Taylor, Neville Henry

Conflicts

• Second World War, 1939-1945

Units

• 2/18th Australian Infantry Battalion

Tags

• Prisoners of war
• Changi Gaol
• Sandakan Prisoner of War Camp