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NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX17585 Warrant Officer Class 2 John James Chapman, 2/3rd Ordnance Store Company, Australian Army Ordnance 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. Warrant Officer Class 2 Chapman, aged 38, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 5 July 1945. He was the son of Walter and Nellie Chapman, and the husband of Lucy Chapman, of Tweed Heads, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 27. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX67296 Warrant Officer Class 2 Robert William Sykes, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of wa
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX1717 Private Basil Beresford Chapman, Headquarters 8th Division, Australian Imperial Force. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) hel
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX47044 Warrant Officer Class 2 Thomas Clarence Taylor, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX68217 Warrant Officer Class 2 Keith Maitland Turner, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of w
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX65224 Warrant Officer Class 1 John Wallace Blackie, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX41491 Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2) Frank Newhouse, General Base Depot, . He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan
