Description
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX11693 Private Thomas Henry Robbins, 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 Robbins, aged 43, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 4 June 1945. He was the son of Alfred Philpot Robbins and Mary Elizabeth Robins, and the husband of Elizabeth Jane Robbins, of Heidelberg, Vic. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 24. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
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Accession Number
P02468.257
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Film copy negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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