Description
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX52524 Lance Sergeant Donald Alexander Campbell, 2/18th 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 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. Lance Sergeant Campbell, aged 44, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 11 May 1945. He was the son of Donald Alexander Campbell and Emily Graham Campbell, and the husband of Marjorie Kurn Campbell, of Chatswood, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 9. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
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Accession Number
P02467.623
Classification
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Physical Description
Support: Polyester
Format: 4x5"
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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