The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Identity portrait, taken on enlistment, of NX37432 Private Donald Leonard Watts, 2/30th 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 Watts, aged 23, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 30 July 1945. He was the son of Francis Samuel and Lucy Watts, of Kadungle, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 17. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
Studio portrait of NX37432 Private (Pte) Donald Leonard Watts, 2/30th Battalion. He enlisted in Paddington, NSW on 27 June 1941 and embarked aboard the Queen Mary for Singapore later that year, and wa
Informal portrait of Mary "Biddy" Guy, sweetheart of NX37432 Private (Pte) Donald Leonard Watts, 2/30 Battalion. Pte Watts enlisted in Paddington, NSW, on 27 June 1941 and embarked aboard the Queen Ma
Studio portrait of NX37432 Private (Pte) Donald Leonard Watts, 2/30 Battalion. The print is signed "With best wishes and good friendship from Don xxx" on the reverse. He enlisted in Paddington, NSW on
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX31254 Private Cyril Arthur Rundle, 2/30th 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 NX36660 Private Norman Sydney Grist, 2/30th 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 NX56047 Private Samuel Henry Platt, 2/19th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan P
