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Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX13579 Sergeant Desmond Stanley Parkinson, No. 2 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. 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 Parkinson, aged 34, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 19 February 1945. He was the son of Frank Comer and Ettie Lucile Parkinson, of Greenslopes, Qld. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 20. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX14032 Sergeant John William Peterson, No. 2 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX18658 Private William Cooke, 2/26th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW ca
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX21277 Private James William Pashen, 2/29th 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 NX38445 Private Norman William Bagnall, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) he
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
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX16347 Private Kenneth William Bignell, No. 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in th
