The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX32904 Private Cecil Raymond Pogson, 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 Pogson, aged 40, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 15 June 1945. He was the son of Cecil and Ida Louise Pogson, and the husband of Edna Winifred Pogson, of Thornleigh, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 11. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
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 NX40910 Private Francis Carl Dezius, 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 NX45191 Corporal Nigel Noel Brown, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan PO
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX50271 Corporal Keith Davey Ferguson, 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 NX54537 Corporal George Dudley Pepper, 2/20th 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 NX71751 Private Thomas Bertie Hall, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan P
