The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX9488 Sergeant Errol David Bancroft, 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. Sergeant Bancroft, aged 25, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 10 June 1945. He was the son of David John and Christina Bancroft, and the husband of Irene Catherine Bancroft, of Maroochydore, Qld. 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.)
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX11017 Private David Austin Cumming, 2/26th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX57915 Private Eric Charles Norman Vollheim, 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 NX45708 Private Keith Byers McCall, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan P
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX24124 Private Keith William Rickerby, 2/29th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandak
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX10472 Gunner Allan David Shaw, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the S
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX13254 Sergeant Charles Goldsbury Hay, 2/10th Ordnance Field Park, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW
