The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX55455 Private John Ferguson, 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. Private Ferguson, aged 28, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 17 February 1945. He was the son of Adam Nimmo Ferguson and Annie Ferguson, of Kensington, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 10. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX52194 Private Reginald Adam Milne, 2/29th Infantry Battalion, . He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp i
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX18656 Private James Burgess, 2/26th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW ca
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX32237 Private Ernest Patteson, No. 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandak
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX51547 Corporal Norman John Ferguson, 8th Division Postal Unit, Australian Army Postal Service attached to 2/20th Infantry Battalion. He was one of ov
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX56960 Private George Arthur Bolton, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX7999 Private Reginald Paul Ferguson, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in t
