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SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX9269 Private Gordon John Barker, 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 Barker, aged 29, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 3 March 1945. He was the son of Gordon and Edith Isobel Barker, and the husband of June Pilben Barker, of Tea Tree Gully, 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 SX9634 Private Edward Morton Richards, 8th Division Salvage Unit, Australian Army Salvage Service. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW)
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX56303 Private Clifford Radford, 2/29th Infantry Battalion, attached to Headquarters Australian Imperial Force, Malaya, Australian Infantry. He was one
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX11733 Private Frederick Priester, 4th Reserve Motor Transport Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX18114 Private Douglas Thomas Barker, 2/26th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandaka
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX42402 Private Henry Walter Menzies, 2/19th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX40999 Private Thomas Gordon, 22nd Independent Brigade Group Ordnance Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisone
