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Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX14241 Corporal Eldred Arthur Strout, Australian Army Ordnance Corps attached to 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 E Force. The 500 Australian and 500 British POW's who made up E Force, left Changi on 28 March 1943, on board the S.S. DeKlerk arriving at Berhala Island (adjacent to Sandakan Harbour) on 15 April 1943. The POW's were held there until 5 June, when they were taken by barge to Sandakan. The next day they were transferred to the 8 Mile Camp, which was about half a mile from the B Force compound. Corporal Strout, aged 35, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 28 March 1945. He was the son of Arthur Henry and Annie Violet Strout, and the husband of Marguerite Strout, of Indooroopilly, 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 QX9899 Lance Sergeant Arthur Roy Carlson, 2/10th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX20451 Private Eric Norman Pile, 2/10th Ordnance Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX20993 Gunner Vincent Mervyn Warren Brown, 2/10th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) he
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX21789 Private Kenneth George Wrigley, 2/10th Ordnance Field Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX9563 Gunner Jack William Light, 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 QX12664 Private Edgar Robert Burnett, 2/10th Ordnance Workshop, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied p
