The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX49269 Private Hector Hamilton, 2/19th 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 E Force. The 500 Australian and 500 British POW's who made up E Force, left Changi on 28 March 1943, on board the S.S. DeKlerk arriving at Berhala Island (adjacent to Sandakan Harbour) on 15 April 1943. The POW's were held there until 5 June, when they were taken by barge to Sandakan. The next day they were transferred to the 8 Mile Camp, which was about half a mile from the B Force compound. Private Hamilton, aged 36, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 29 May 1945. He was the son of Samuel and Isabel Jane Hamilton, and the husband of Clarice Margaret Hamilton, of Lidcombe, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 12. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX34074 Private Mervyn Colin Bell, 2/20th 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 NX59479 Corporal Ronald Stanley Spurway, 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 NX44005 Private John Thomas Noon, 8th Division Mobile Laundry & Forward Decontamination Unit, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 A
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX36653 Signalman George Daniel Conquit, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps Of Signals. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX33792 Gunner Edward Allan Noel Hamilton Kirby, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (PO
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX40262 Private William Frederick Blair, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sanda
