The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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) 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. Corporal Rooke, aged 40, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 19 June 1945. He was the son of Frederick William and Sarah Elizabeth Rooke, and the husband of Adeliade Eliza Rooke, of North Wagga, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 25. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
Members of No. 5 Course Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) at No. 3 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) meet the English entertainer Noel Coward. Left to right: 400396 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Ho
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
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX35221 Lance Corporal Walter Russell Hopkins, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX40386 Corporal James Kenneth Mills, 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 NX10403 Private Claude Thomas Larcombe, Headquarters Australian Imperial Force, Malaya, . He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX49460 Private Francis Edward Dooley, 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 NX10946 Gunner Herbert Edward Knight, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
