P02467.756 Accession Number: P02467.756

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NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX58985 Private Henry Morris, 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 B Force. The 1494 POWs 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 Morris, aged 32, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 18 February 1945. He was the son of Henry and Elsie May Morris, and the husband of Gertrude Arley Morris, of Bexley, 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.)

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Accession Number
P02467.756
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Film copy negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
12 July 1940
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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