The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX72749 Acting Corporal John Jackson, 8th Divisional Provost Company, Australian Army Provost 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. Acting Corporal Jackson, aged 29, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 29 April 1945. He was the son of Kathleen Jackson. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 30. (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 every day. The ceremony commemorates more than 102,000 Australians who have given their lives in war and ot
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX57540 Corporal Leonard Anthony Cassidy, 8th Divisional Provost Company, Australian Army Provost Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of wa
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX35472 Corporal George Bousie, 8th Divisional Provost Company, Australian Army Provost Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) he
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX33566 Corporal Edward George Moore, 8th Divisional Provost Company, Australian Army Provost Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (P
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX40244 Corporal Claude Hope Hargrave, 8th Divisional Provost Company, Australian Army Provost Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX55798 Corporal Donald George Wilson, 8th Divisional Provost Company, Australian Army Provost Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX55844 Private Leonard William Jackson, Headquarters 22nd Infantry Brigade, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW)
