The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX1606 Corporal Percival Edmund Hankin, 2/26th 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. Corporal Hankin, aged 42, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 15 June 1945. He was the son of Nathaniel James Hankin and Harriett Hankin, and the husband of Dorothy Elizabeth Hankin. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 15. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX33191 Private John Plunkett, 2/26th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW ca
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX11487 Lance Corporal Andrew Peter McLellan, 2/26th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX13600 Private Sydney Roberts, 2/26th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW c
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX17181 Corporal Charles Nelson Mann, 2/26th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX16818 Driver Ernest James Percival, 3rd Reserve Motor Transport Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of w
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX15677 Sergeant Walter John Hancock, 2/29th Infantry Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the
