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NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX60504 Corporal James Henry McConville, 8th Divisional Provost Company, Australian Army Provost 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 E Force. The 500 Australian and 500 British POW's who made up E Force, left Changi on 28 March 1943, on board the S.S. DeKlerk arriving at Berhala Island (adjacent to Sandakan Harbour) on 15 April 1943. The POW's were held there until 5 June, when they were taken by barge to Sandakan. The next day they were transferred to the 8 Mile Camp, which was about half a mile from the B Force compound. Corporal McConville, aged 35, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 16 April 1945. He was the son of James and Joan Elizabeth McConville, and the husband of Queenie Elizabeth McConville, of Queanbeyan, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 30. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX67727 Private Charles Ernest Ingram, 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 NX620 Private William Edward Weston, 8th Divisional Provost Company, Australian Army Provost Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (PO
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX54832 Private Robert Norman Benson Burns, 22nd Brigade Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX41863 Private Vincent John Lennon, 8th Divisional Provost Company, Australian Army Provost Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (PO
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX10826 Private John Robert James, 2/19th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan PO
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX21789 Private Kenneth George Wrigley, 2/10th Ordnance Field Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war
