The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX39744 Private George Ambrose, 2/20th 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 Ambrose, aged 24, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 28 April 1945. He was the son of Alfred Joseph and Maggie Helen Ambrose, of Lithgow, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 13. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX73001 Private William John McKenzie, 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 NX72757 Private Thomas Burns, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW cam
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 NX51547 Corporal Norman John Ferguson, 8th Division Postal Unit, Australian Army Postal Service attached to 2/20th Infantry Battalion. He was one of ov
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX897 Private Charles Douglas Mainstone, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sanda
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX7129 Private James Alexander Pickering, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sand
