The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX50579 Private Archibald William Gardner, 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 Gardner, aged 30, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 5 June 1945. He was the son of Norman and Ella Elizabeth Gardner, of Mount Druitt, 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.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX58754 Private Norman Thomas Hams, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan P
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX6998 Sapper Eric James Gardner, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in th
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX46000 Lance Corporal Claude Albert Gardner, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (P
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX28552 Lance Bombardier Irwin Lane Gunstone Gardner, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of wa
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX31893 Private Ronald Thomas Cranney, 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 NX71656 Private James Molloy, No. 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan
