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SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX10704 Private John Lester, 4th 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 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 Lester, aged 38, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 30 March 1945. He was the son of Jesse and Emily Lester, and the husband of Eleanor Lester, of Mount Gambier, 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 SX11762 Private Moritz Walter Cooling, 4th Reserve Motor Transport Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of w
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX8723 Private Norman Harry Praetz, No. 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sand
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX10846 Private Neil Wilfred Fergusson, 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX11625 Private Roy James Jantke, 4th Reserve Motor Transport Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (P
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX4394 Private Edward Emanuel Robertson, 8th Division Salvage Unit, Australian Army Salvage Service. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (PO
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX7849 Private Laurence Lovelock Watters, 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of w
