The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX35826 Private William John McIlhagga, Headquarters 22nd Infantry Brigade, 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 McIlhagga, aged 44, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 19 June 1945. He was the son of Daniel and Annie E. McIlhagga, of Mid-Calder, Midlothian, Scotland. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 9. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX24252 Corporal Jack Hampden Arnold, 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 NX57256 Private Arthur Daniel Thomas, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX18656 Private James Burgess, 2/26th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW ca
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX9634 Private Edward Morton Richards, 8th Division Salvage Unit, Australian Army Salvage Service. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX55455 Private John Ferguson, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW ca
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX13101 Private Gordon Keith Barber, 2/26th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan
