P02468.152 Accession Number: P02468.152

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Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX21556 Private Harvey Donald McCallum, 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 McCallum, aged 34, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 17 April 1945. He was the son of Sidney Donald and Edith Hanna McCallum, and the husband of Florence Ellen McCallum, of East Brisbane, Qld. 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.)

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Accession Number
P02468.152
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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