The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX68432 Driver Charles Pawson, 2/3rd Motor Ambulance, Company, Australian Army Service 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 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. Driver Pawson, aged 56, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 19 April 1945. He was the son of Thomas and Isabel Pawson, and the husband of Gertrude Elizabeth Pawson, of Rozelle, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 22. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX40648 Lance Sergeant John William Macpherson Jones, 4th Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of w
Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX26119 Lance Bombardier John Mitchell Scott, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX14900 Lance Sergeant Fred Lindsay Staggs, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sa
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX41955 Private John Dennis Guinea, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan P
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX45411 Private Thomas Bailey Patterson, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sanda
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX52157 Private William Alfred Jordan, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandaka
