The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 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 Barber, aged 37, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 8 December 1944. He was the son of Andrew and Annie Laura Barber, of Nudgee, 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 QX18659 Private William Christiansen, 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 QX8453 Private Christopher Stirling, 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 QX13600 Private Sydney Roberts, 2/26th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW c
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 QX23944 Private David William Mabin, , Australian Infantry. 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 QX18656 Private James Burgess, 2/26th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW ca
