P02467.564 Accession Number: P02467.564

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NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX49712 Sapper Philip Osborne Marshall, 3rd Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers. 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. Sapper Marshall, aged 22, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 3 April 1945. He was the son of Edward James Marshall and Jessie Annie Marshall, of Strathfield, 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
P02467.564
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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