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Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX20512 Private John McMahon, 22nd Independent Brigade Group Ordnance Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps, attached to 74th Light Aid Detachment. 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 McMahon, aged 26, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 10 July 1945. He was the son of Mr and Mrs J. McMahon, of North Brighton, Vic. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 29. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX57393 Private John Joseph Dunne, 22th Independent Brigade Group Ordnance Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied pri
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX63470 Private Edward Maxfield Kroschel, 27th Ordnance Field Park, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (PO
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX39481 Private Geoffrey Paul Durand, 22nd Independent Brigade Group Ordnance Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX64581 Private Lyall Graham Morgan, 22nd Independent Brigade Group Ordnance Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied p
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX30008 Craftsman Douglas John May, 22nd Independent Brigade Group Ordnance Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied pr
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
