The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX36659 Signalman Frank Gordon Franklin, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps of Signals. 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. Signalman Franklin, aged 38, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 14 February 1945. He was the son of Edward and Margaret Browne Franklin, and the husband of Doreen Frances Franklin, of Wagga Wagga, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 7. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX19365 Signalman Henry James Rowan, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps of Signals. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in t
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX44536 Signalman Cecil Henry Ayres, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps of Signals. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in t
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX42967 Signalman Allan John Dengate, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps of Signals. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX43426 Signalman Patrick Joseph Doyle, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps of Signals. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held i
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX31069 Signalman Roy Bowman Ratcliff, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps of Signals. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX41804 Signalman Horace Gladstone Garde, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps of Signals. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
