The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX26269 Private William Monro, 2/10th Ordnance Workshop, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. 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 Monro, aged 42, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 27 May 1945. He was the son of William and Annie Monro, and the husband of Maude Alice Monro, of Ferny Creek, 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.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX71825 Private Arthur William Mathew, 2/3rd Motor Ambulance Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (P
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX56999 Private William Alfred Macaulay, 22nd Brigade Ordnance Field Park, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8535 Private Arthur Francis Shirley, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in t
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX13600 Private Sydney Roberts, 2/26th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW c
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX43384 Lance Corporal William Thomas Rudd, 4th Reserve Motor Transport Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoner
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX7360 Sapper Gilbert Lawrence Cottle Field, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW)
