The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 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. Private Crighton, aged 32, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 20 May 1945. He was the son of Philip and Florence Mabel Crighton, of Brighton-le-Sands, 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.)
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 t
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 NX36469 Private Frank Bartle Ledwidge, 2/19th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandaka
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX10940 Private Wallace Gordon Whiting, 2/20th 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 NX20431 Gunner Arthur George Ellis, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in th
