The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX67306 Sapper Arthur Walter Bird, Headquarters 8th Division, Royal Australian Engineers. 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. Sapper Bird, aged 28, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 9 July 1945. He was the son of Walter and Pearl Myra Bird, and the husband of Beryl Marjorie Bird, of Stanmore, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 5. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
The Last Post Ceremony is presented in the Commemorative area of the Australian War Memorial each day. The ceremony commemorates more than 102,000 Australians who have given their lives in war and oth
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX72771 Private Thomas Westley Tindall Cole, 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 NX54786 Sapper George William Clark, 2/12th Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in th
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX66388 Sapper Frederick John Beaumont, 2/12th Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX67878 Private James Emmanuel Bird, 87th Light Aid Detachment, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) h
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8008 Sapper Henry Walter Thurston, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8633 Sapper Edward George Kilminster, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
