The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX67444 Sapper Alexander Thomson, 2/12th Field Company, 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 Thomson, aged 36, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 13 January 1945. He was the son of John and Annie Thomson. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 6. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX49712 Sapper Philip Osborne Marshall, 3rd Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in t
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX46208 Sapper Frank Leslie Bryant, 2/10th Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8535 Private Arthur Francis Shirley, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in t
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX5829 Private William Matthew Keating, 8th Division Postal Unit, Australian Army Postal Service. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX34321 Private Ernest Frank Thomson, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX4526 Sapper Henry Adams, 2/12th Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan
