The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX57816 Private Ernest Albert Rodgers, 2/3rd Motor Ambulance Company, Australian Army Service 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 Rodgers, aged 41, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 7 June 1945. He was the son of Frederick and Annie Rodgers, and the husband of Mena Rose Rodgers, of Maroubra, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 24. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX18656 Private James Burgess, 2/26th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW ca
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX11576 Private Charles Russell Speake, 4th Reserve Motor Transport Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX54958 Private Walter Brooker, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW c
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX55051 Private Arthur Robert Steele, 2/20th 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 NX71656 Private James Molloy, No. 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX11479 Corporal Raymond Horace Coker, 4th Reserve Motor Transport Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of w
