P02467.472 Accession Number: P02467.472

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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 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 Ayres, aged 31, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 10 April 1945. He was the son of Frederick Clarence and Evelyn Ayres, and the husband of Violet May Ayres, of Bellbird, 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.)

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Accession Number
P02467.472
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Film copy negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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