The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX6889 Driver Jack Osborne Thomas, 2/2nd Reserve Motor Transport Company, 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 E Force. The 500 Australian and 500 British POW's who made up E Force, left Changi on 28 March 1943, on board the S.S. DeKlerk arriving at Berhala Island (adjacent to Sandakan Harbour) on 15 April 1943. The POW's were held there until 5 June, when they were taken by barge to Sandakan. The next day they were transferred to the 8 Mile Camp, which was about half a mile from the B Force compound. Driver Thomas, aged 26, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 15 May 1945. He was the son of Osborne Hanson Thomas and Gladys Annie Thomas, of Kangaroo Island, 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 SX10637 Private Thomas Roy Skinner, 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (PO
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX3655 Driver Malcolm Lancelot Campbell, 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of wa
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX13927 Private Leonard Geoffrey Kohler, 2/10th Ordnance Field Park, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (PO
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX10201 Signalman John Bevilaqua Clucas, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps Of Signals. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held i
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX65780 Gunner Kenneth George Perry, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in th
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX8947 Private Ronald Percy Worby, 8th Division Salvage Unit, Australian Army Salvage Service. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) hel
