P02467.946 Accession Number: P02467.946

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Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX1905 Gunner Douglas Hogan, 2/10th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. 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. Gunner Hogan, aged 21, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 17 October 1942. He was the son of Bernard and Ivy Hogan, of Ipswich, Qld. He is buried in the Labuan Cemetery Section Q, Row A, Plot 9. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02467.946
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Film copy negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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