The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX18656 Private James Burgess, 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 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. Private Burgess, aged 39, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 30 July 1945. He was the husband of Annie Maud Burgess, of Pelican Flats, NSW. 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 QX13600 Private Sydney Roberts, 2/26th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW c
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX42402 Private Henry Walter Menzies, 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 QX14769 Private Harold Gode, 2/26th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX32213 Private Cyril William George Lewis, No. 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX65726 Private Arthur Blandford Last, No. 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX72705 Private James Frederick Anderson, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sand
