The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX4577 Private Fernly James Burke, 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park, Australian Army Service 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. Private Burke, aged 34, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 7 June 1945. He was the son of Michael and Mary Emma Burke, of Maitland, SA. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 22. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX11770 Private William Alfred Boyley, 27th Independent Brigade Group Ordnance Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX11728 Private Henry Alan Sandercock, 4th Reserve Motor Transport Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of w
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX55361 Private John Ronald Rankin, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan P
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX32301 Private Jack Francis Connell, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX40807 Private Cecil Hickman, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW ca
Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX45810 Private Thomas Cyril Lethbridge, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps, of West Maitland, NSW. He was one of over 2000 Allied prison
