The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX54640 Corporal James Edward Wheeler, HQ AASC 8 DIV AAMC attached to No 1 COV AASC . 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 POWs 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. Corporal Wheeler, aged 40, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 28 June 1945. He was the son of James George and Mary Ellen Wheeler, and the husband of Ethel Mary Wheeler, of Meadowbank, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 21. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX5671 Corporal Edwin James Henwood, 8th Divisional Provost Company, Australian Army Provost Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (PO
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX53667 Corporal John Desmond Fitzgerald, 2nd Echelon, Army Headquarters, . He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX13269 Driver Laurence William Murray, No. 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX36941 Driver James Joseph Ryan, 2nd Reserve Motor Transport Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX55556 Corporal Jack Betts, 8th Division Base Postal Unit, Australian Army Postal Service. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX33148 Corporal James Maxwell Ellis Allen, 2/3rd Motor Ambulance Convoy, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of wa
