The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX21158 Private Desmond Charles Keays, 2/9th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical 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 E Force. The 500 Australian and 500 British POW's who made up E Force, left Changi on 28 March 1943, on board the S.S. DeKlerk arriving at Berhala Island (adjacent to Sandakan Harbour) on 15 April 1943. The POW's were held there until 5 June, when they were taken by barge to Sandakan. The next day they were transferred to the 8 Mile Camp, which was about half a mile from the B Force compound. Private Keays, aged 22, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 19 March 1945. He was the son of Frederick William and Bernice Keays, of North Fitzroy, Vic. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 26. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX19215 Private Charles Brady, 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX47493 Private Redclyffe Edgeland Harrington, 4th Reserve Motor Transport Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied priso
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX67873 Private Francis William Jacobs, 2/10th Ordnance Workshops, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allie
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX39859 Private James William Boyd, 27th Brigade Group Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW)
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX64659 Private Leslie Thomas Otter, 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 VX57889 Private George Lambert, 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandaka
