P02467.699 Accession Number: P02467.699

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NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX56152 Private David Gloag, 2/30th 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 Gloag, aged 30, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 1 March 1945. He was the son of David and Anne Gloag, of Auburn, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 17. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02467.699
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Film copy negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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