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SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX9909 Private Garth Yates, 8th Division Salvage Unit, Australian Army Salvage Service. 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 Yates, aged 31, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 9 March 1945. He was the son of Percy George and May Ada Yates, of Angaston, SA. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 31. (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 SX4713 Private Reginald Allan Hales, 8th Division Salvage Unit, Australian Army Salvage Service. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) h
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX7706 Private Raymond Claude Egel, 8th Division Salvage Company, Australian Army Salvage Service. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW)
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX9006 Private William Gordon Knapp, 8th Division Salvage Unit, Australian Army Salvage Service. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) h
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX10091 Private Vernon Horace McKinnon, 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 SX10531 Sergeant Vivian George Larner, 8th Division Salvage Unit, Australian Salvage Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held i
