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Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX20596 Craftsman Alexander Joseph Smith, 22nd Independent Brigade Group Ordnance Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps, attached to 69th 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. Craftsman Smith, aged 26, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 14 April 1945. He was the son of Adam and Jane Elizabeth Smith, and the husband of Edna Mary Smith, of Albert Park, 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 VX34719 Craftsman Bernard Davis Ralph, 22nd Independent Brigade Group Ordnance Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX66054 Craftsman Herbert John Stewart, 2/10th Ordnance Workshop, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX34708 Craftsman William Davies Ralph, 22nd Independent Brigade Group Ordnance Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allie
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX54178 Craftsman Thomas William Fraser, 27th Independent Brigade Group Ordnance Workshops, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 All
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX54880 Craftsman Gordon Henry Bartils, 2/10th Ordnance Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW)
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
