The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX5989 Bombardier John Seymour Handley Commins, 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. Bombardier Commins, aged 33, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 8 May 1945. He was the son of Alfred and Flora Mary Commins, of Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 2. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX10433 Bombardier Cecil George Harry Jukes, 2/10th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) h
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX46612 Bombardier Geoffrey Frederick Brownlee, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX27496 Private John Mahoney, General Base Depot, Malaya, . He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp in nort
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX27967 Lance Bombardier Athol Palmer, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX8433 Bombardier James Albert Jeavons, 2/10th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held i
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX13170 Sergeant Laurence Paulett, 2/10th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the
