The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX27558 Sergeant Merton Chanter Whereat, No. 2 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. Sergeant Whereat, aged 40, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 22 March 1945. He was the husband of Jean Margaret Whereat, of Croydon, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 20. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX53537 Staff Sergeant Edward Francis Clyne, 2/30th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the S
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX51926 Sergeant Walter Edward Mitchell, 8th Divisional Provost Company, Australian Army Provost Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX60030 Sergeant Laurence Nink, No. 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandaka
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX54971 Lance Sergeant Barrie Crawford Whitehead, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX32109 Lieutenant Gordon Good, 2/19th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW c
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX39190 Staff Sergeant Robert George Brown, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) he
