The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX54971 Lance Sergeant Barrie Crawford Whitehead, 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 Whitehead, aged 39, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 13 July 1945. He was the son of Edward John and Edith Crawford Whitehead, and the husband of Gwen Barrington Whitehead, of Croydon, 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.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX68426 Private John Barrie, 2/3rd Motor Ambulance Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held i
Studio portrait of NX54971 Corporal (Cpl) Barrie Crawford Whitehead, 2/18 Battalion. Cpl Whitehead, from Lismore NSW, was captured at the fall of Singapore in 1942 He died of illness on 13 July 194
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX42402 Private Henry Walter Menzies, 2/19th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX31793 Lance Corporal Neil Turner, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan P
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX33062 Private James Orton Crawford, No. 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the S
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX27558 Sergeant Merton Chanter Whereat, No. 2 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in th
