The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX38312 Private John Stephen Hobbs, 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 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 Hobbs, aged 25, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 4 March 1945. He was the son of Stephen and Mary Emily Hobbs. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 10. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
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 NX1719 Private Ronald Alton Patterson, Headquarters 8th Division, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in th
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX26957 Private Raymond Thomas Ryan, 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 NX35288 Private Gordon Burgun, 2/19th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW ca
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX49915 Private Edward Colin Slip, 2/19th 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 NX20419 Sapper Frederick Archibald Carley, 2/12th Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
