P02467.728 Accession Number: P02467.728

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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 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 Brown, aged 32, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 15 July 1945. He was the son of James and Alice Brown, and the husband of Edna May Brown, of Sutton Forrest, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 26. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02467.728
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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