The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX58754 Private Norman Thomas Hams, 2/20th 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 Hams, aged 24, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 25 March 1945. He was the son of Archibald Augustus and Elizabeth Maria Hams, of Arncliffe, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 14. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX50579 Private Archibald William Gardner, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX26957 Private Raymond Thomas Ryan, 2/30th 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 NX30968 Private Guildford Blackman Robinson, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the S
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX51527 Private Irvine Bredbury, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX26720 Private Francis Reginald Burridge, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX32577 Private Sydney Warren Molony, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
