P02468.313 Accession Number: P02468.313

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Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX24017 Lance Corporal Montague William Kemp, No. 1 Company, 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. Lance Corporal Kemp, aged 48, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 4 April 1945. He was the son of Henry and Anne Elizabeth Kemp, and the husband of Gwendoline Joan Alleyne Kemp, of Elsternwick, Vic. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 21. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02468.313
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Film copy negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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