The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX32702 Private Eric Francis Bullen, 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 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. Private Bullen, aged 30, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 25 April 1945. He was the son of Joseph Nelson Brennan Bullen and Hazel Esther Bullen, of Cremorne, 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 NX26580 Private Merton Nelson Short, 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 NX40464 Private Jack Burrows, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW cam
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX50946 Private George Allan McEwen, 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 NX67672 Private James William Armstrong, 17th Dental Unit, Australian Army Dental Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX72482 Private Ronald John Edward Thompson, 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 NX4668 Private Noel Leslie Parker, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan PO
