The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX38895 Private Michael Thomas O'Hara, 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. Private O'Hara, aged 34, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 29 May 1945. He was the son of Charles Andrew and Margaret O'Hara, of Mayfield, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 26. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX19011 Private Ronald Terence O'Hara, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) hel
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX18658 Private William Cooke, 2/26th 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 NX67672 Private James William Armstrong, 17th Dental Unit, Australian Army Dental Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX72865 Private Leslie Neville Fitzgerald, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the San
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX40807 Private Cecil Hickman, 2/18th 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 NX56981 Private Francis William Headford, No. 2 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in t
