The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX53504 Private Frank Maurice Harold Higgison, 2/30th 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. Private Higgison, aged 36, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 12 June 1945. He was the son of Frank Arnold and Mary Gill Higgison, of Marrickville, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 17. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
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 NX78032 Private Alexander John Wilmott, 2/30th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandak
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX21245 Private John Francis McCarthy, 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 NX4410 Private Neal Broughton Grey Byrne, 2/30th 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 NX72482 Private Ronald John Edward Thompson, 2/30th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the S
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX78033 Private Cyril Mervyn Maurice Ghananburgh (served as C. M. Maurice), 2/29th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied priso
