The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX72771 Private Thomas Westley Tindall Cole, 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 Cole, aged 23, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 7 June 1945. He was the son of Westley Walter and Myra Valerie Cole, of Parkes, 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.)
Studio portrait of NX72771 Private (Pte) Thomas Westley Tindall Cole, 2/18th Battalion. He enlisted on 8 April 1941 and embarked for Malaya. He was commanding bren guns when attacked by the Japanese -
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX46095 Private Robert Clive Bruce, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held i
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX78032 Private Alexander John Wilmott, 2/30th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandak
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX54534 Private Colin Cyril Asgill, 2/30th 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 NX67306 Sapper Arthur Walter Bird, Headquarters 8th Division, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
Tas. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of TX5859 Private Jack Allan Clear, 2/26th Infantry Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sand
