The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX59898 Staff Sergeant James Marsden Betts, 2/19th 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. Staff Sergeant Betts, aged 30, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 12 April 1945. He was the son of William Marsden Betts and Leila Margaret Betts, of Orange, 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.)
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 NX39190 Staff Sergeant Robert George Brown, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) he
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX53537 Staff Sergeant Edward Francis Clyne, 2/30th 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 NX27558 Sergeant Merton Chanter Whereat, No. 2 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in th
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX51926 Sergeant Walter Edward Mitchell, 8th Divisional Provost Company, Australian Army Provost Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX24461 Staff Sergeant Alan Charles Arthur Hunter, 8th Divisional Provost Company, Australian Army Provost Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prison
