The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX46095 Private Robert Clive Bruce, 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 Bruce, aged 36, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 31 March 1945. He was the son of Nerida Bruce, and the husband of Myra Margaret Bruce, of Byangum, 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.)
Tas. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of TX5859 Private Jack Allan Clear, 2/26th Infantry Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sand
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX45348 Private Bruce Albert Rawlings, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) hel
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX59118 Private Reginald Edward Smith, 2/30th 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 NX67306 Sapper Arthur Walter Bird, Headquarters 8th Division, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX32109 Lieutenant Gordon Good, 2/19th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW c
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX20743 Private Roy Edward Turner, 2/29th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan PO
