P02467.847 Accession Number: P02467.847

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NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX68520 Private Ivan Stanley Bailey, 2/18th 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. Private Bailey, aged 23, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 4 December 1944. He was the son of Walter William and Jessie Caroline Bailey, of Lidcombe, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 10. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02467.847
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Format: 4x5"
Support: Polyester
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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