The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX16280 Gunner George Strachan, 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. Gunner Strachan, aged 45, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 6 April 1945. He was the son of George and Alice Mary Strachan, of Gillingham, Kent, England. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 3. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX25502 Gunner Joseph Redvers Grimwood, 2/15th 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 QX22365 Private Charles Henry Harris, 2/19th 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 QX10094 Gunner Francis Sinnamon, 2/10th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the S
New Zealand. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX10694 Gunner William Heyworth, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX28295 Gunner Reginald James Grosvenor, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX40106 Gunner Ross Hamilton Sheedy, 4th Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
