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SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX9198 Private Leo Michael Kavanagh, 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 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. Private Kavanagh, aged 42, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 15 February 1945. He was the son of Francis John and Catharine Mary Kavanagh, and the husband of Kathleen Mary Kavanagh, of New Hindmarsh, SA. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 23. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX6725 Signalman Robert Hughes, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps of Signals. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the San
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX4977 Private Murray Orme Sherman, 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 SX8384 Lance Corporal George James Evans, 22nd Indepenedent Brigade Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners o
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX8421 Private William Morrice Golbert Finn, 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners o
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX9933 Lance Corporal Edgar Carl Wachner, 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of w
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX12793 Private Leslie Alfred Wilson, 2/3rd Ordnance Store Company, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW
