The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX56820 Corporal William Thomas Lake, 8th Division Postal Unit, Australian Army Postal Service. 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. Corporal Lake, aged 34, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 25 May 1945. He was the son of William Charles and Amy Florence Lake, of Mosman, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 31. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX55556 Corporal Jack Betts, 8th Division Base Postal Unit, Australian Army Postal Service. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX5829 Private William Matthew Keating, 8th Division Postal Unit, Australian Army Postal Service. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX40548 Corporal Jack Woodall, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW ca
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX7883 Private William Herbert Beard, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in th
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
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX64151 Corporal Walter Hogg, 8th Division Postal Unit, Australian Army Postal Service. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in t
