The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX27127 Lance Corporal Gavin Bell Varrie, No. 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. 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. Lance Corporal Varrie, aged 31, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 7 June 1945. He was the son of Edward Alexander Varrie and Maud Varrie, of Marrickville, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 21. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX40548 Corporal Jack Woodall, 2/18th 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 NX55556 Corporal Jack Betts, 8th Division Base Postal Unit, Australian Army Postal Service. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX31793 Lance Corporal Neil Turner, 2/20th 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 NX27483 Lance Corporal Thomas Edward Clair, 2/3rd Motor Ambulance Convoy, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of wa
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX40088 Lance Corporal John Simon Scully, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps of Signals. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX31677 Lance Corporal Norman Frank Goodear, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (PO
