The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX30219 Sapper Leslie William Farrey, 2/12th Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers. 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. Sapper Farrey, aged 27, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 20 June 1945. He was the son of James Launt Farrey and Mabel Farrey, of Kogarah, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 6. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX6201 Sapper Alan Clarke, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sanda
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX6558 Sapper Frederick Henry Clark, 2/12th Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in th
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX31044 Private Ronald Stuart Crighton, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandak
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX48079 Private Henry Joseph Demas, 2/18th 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 NX73066 Private Ronald Cecil Dundas, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX5659 Sapper Leslie Atkinson Flood, 2/12th Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in th
