The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX30325 Gunner Desmond Reid Rooke, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. 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. Gunner Rooke, aged 27, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 6 April 1945. He was the son of Joseph Brien and Olive Marie Rooke, of Eastwood, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 4. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX15008 Gunner Douglas Hector Brien, 4th Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX36468 Corporal Richard George Rooke, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) hel
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX9270 Gunner David Alan Reid, 2/10th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the San
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX5157 Lance Corporal George Edward Eastwood, 69th Light Aid Detachment, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one of over 2000
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX25502 Gunner Joseph Redvers Grimwood, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held i
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX53125 Gunner Edward Allan Quintal, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in t
