The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX11408 Private Cecil Ernest Isbel, 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. Private Isbel, aged 26, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 25 March 1945. He was the son of George and Kathleen Isbel, of Prosperine, 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 QX15178 Private Cecil George Langton, 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 QX1826 Private Cecil Henry Rowe, 2/26th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX8463 Private Alfred James Cook, 2/26th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX12559 Private Edward Richard Griffiths, 2/26th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sand
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX13101 Private Gordon Keith Barber, 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 QX13139 Private Gordon Francis DeCosta, 2/26th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandak
