The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX56047 Private Samuel Henry Platt, 2/19th 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 Platt, aged 30, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 26 May 1945. He was the son of Samuel Henry and Helen Douglas Platt, and the husband of Edi May Platt, of Bondi, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 12. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX49447 Private Stephen James Allen, 2/18th 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 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 NX58985 Private Henry Morris, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW cam
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX40710 Private Samuel Joseph Kelly, 2/18th 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 NX35848 Corporal Ernest Henry Turner, 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 NX57465 Private Samuel Brown, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied priso
