P02467.973 Accession Number: P02467.973

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Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX9270 Gunner David Alan Reid, 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 Reid, aged 41, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 29 June 1945. He was the son of David Johnstone Reid and Elizabeth Reid, and the husband of Elma May Reid, of Ashgrove, Qld. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 3. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02467.973
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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