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NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX56325 Private John Ronald Stanley, 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 E Force. The 500 Australian and 500 British POW's who made up E Force, left Changi on 28 March 1943, on board the S.S. DeKlerk arriving at Berhala Island (adjacent to Sandakan Harbour) on 15 April 1943. The POW's were held there until 5 June, when they were taken by barge to Sandakan. The next day they were transferred to the 8 Mile Camp, which was about half a mile from the B Force compound. Private Stanley, aged 31, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 25 May 1945. He was the son of Thomas Richard and Ada May Stanley, of Glebe Point, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 11. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX59479 Corporal Ronald Stanley Spurway, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sanda
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX52261 Private Thomas James Wright, 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 NX31807 Corporal Alwyn Charles Jewiss, , Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp in no
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX56694 Signalman Stanley Victor James Reay, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps of Signals. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) h
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX1231 Private Stanley Grafton Tapper, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandaka
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX40215 Private Stanley Roberts, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW
