The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo, having been transferred there from Singapore as a part of B Force. The 1494 POWs 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 Wilmott, aged 26, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 10 June 1945. He was the son of John and Margaret Ann Wilmott, and the husband of Valerie Edna Wilmott, of Marrickville, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 14. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX48071 Private Harold Longbottom, 2/30th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan PO
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX47046 Sergeant John Adam Whybird, 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 NX45168 Private Robert Pallister, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX53504 Private Frank Maurice Harold Higgison, 2/30th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX2555 Private Geoffrey John O'Loughlan, 2/30th 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 NX37560 Private John Kearney, 2/30th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW cam
