The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX72482 Private Ronald John Edward Thompson, 2/30th 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 Thompson, aged 33, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 30 March 1945. He was the son of Frank Edward and Daisy May Thompson, and the husband of May Esther Thompson, of Kogarah, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 17. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX59118 Private Reginald Edward Smith, 2/30th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandaka
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX55773 Private Horace Norman Hansell, 2/3rd Motor Ambulance, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX40332 Private Thomas Archibald Reading, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sand
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX36453 Private Roland Robert Maben, 2/30th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX9105 Lance Corporal Richard Edward Toombs, 4th Reserve Motor Transport Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoner
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX38428 Private Maxwell George Boustead, 2/30th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sanda
