P02468.130 Accession Number: P02468.130

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Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX19255 Corporal Edward Arthur Green, Command Pay Office, Australian Army Pay 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. Corporal Green, aged 30, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 12 April 1945. He was the son of Louise Adelaide Green, of Buranda, Brisbane, Qld. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 30. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02468.130
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Film copy negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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