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Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX22611 Private William James Murnane, 2/19th Infantry Battalion, Australian Infantry. 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 Murnane, aged 37, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 26 January 1943. He was the son of Thomas and Bridget Murnane and the husband of Dulcie Mildred Murnane, of Hawthorn, Vic. He is buried in the Labuan Cemetery Section R, Row A, Plot 9. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX27460 Gunner Robert John Valentine Smith, 4th Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) h
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX60586 Private Jack Sleep, 2/29th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX42739 Private Noel Francis Brett, 2/30th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan P
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX72757 Private Thomas Burns, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW cam
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX50730 Private Thomas Norman Watson, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX30130 Sergeant Leonard Edwin Searle, 2nd Echelon Headquarters, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the
