The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX65224 Warrant Officer Class 1 John Wallace Blackie, 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. Warrant Officer Class 1 Blackie, aged 46, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 2 June 1945. He was the son of Walter and Helen Blackie, and the husband of Mary Catherine Blackie, of Haberfield, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 13. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX68161 Warrant Officer Class 1 Robert Eric Hughes Sadler, Audit Section, Australian Army Pay Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (P
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX57438 Warrant Officer Class 1 Jonathan Dixon, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in th
Studio portrait of QX17783 Warrant Officer Class 2 Charles Young Watson, No. 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW ca
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX67296 Warrant Officer Class 2 Robert William Sykes, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of wa
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX41519 Warrant Officer Class 1 Athol Osgood, General Base Depot, . He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX40573 Warrant Officer Class 2 Norman Lawrie Maddock, 4th Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of
