The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX55072 Private Thomas David McLachlan, 2/20th 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 McLachlan, aged 29, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 31 May 1945. He was the son of Thomas and Amy McLachlan, and the husband of Phyllis Eileen McLachlan, of Campsie, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 14. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX40425 Private Thomas Henry Lane, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan PO
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX10403 Private Claude Thomas Larcombe, Headquarters Australian Imperial Force, Malaya, . He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX17793 Private John Cooney, No. 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan P
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX59722 Private James Thomas Davis, 2/3rd Motor Ambulance, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX42365 Sapper Eric Robert Short, 2/10th Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the S
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
