The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX15180 Lance Bombardier Victor Pascoe Leinster, 2/10th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. 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. Lance Bombardier Leinster, aged 26, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 22 February 1945. He was the son of James Pascoe Leinster and Hannah Leinster, of Atherton, Qld. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 2. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.) (See also P11717.002)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX27967 Lance Bombardier Athol Palmer, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX16443 Lance Bombardier John Michael Cunningham, 2/10th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (P
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX27640 Lance Bombardier John Leslie Dunkinson, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX30581 Lance Bombardier James Reginald Cross, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW)
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX14902 Lance Sergeant Lyall Victor Powell, 2/10th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) he
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX19389 Lance Bombardier George Alexander McDonald, 4th Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war
