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Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX30185 Private Eric Bloom, No. 2 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. Private Bloom, aged 42, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 8 February 1945. He was the son of John Eric and Mary Ann Bloom, and the husband of Doris May Bloom, of Chiltern, Vic. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 22. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
Outdoor portrait of VX30185 Private (Pte) Eric Bloom, of Camperdown, Vic with his wife Doris May Bloom and their three children Lynette, 7 weeks, Frances and Wilma both 3 years. He enlisted with No. 2
Studio portrait of VX30185 Private (Pte) Eric Bloom, No. 2 Company, Australian Army Service Corps, of Camperdown, Vic. Pte Bloom enlisted from Royal Park, Vic, on 18 June 1940. He was one of over 2000
Group portrait identified back row, Bob Clarke; Clarry Hall; Jim Brown; Jim Pickerson; Private (Pte) Eric Bloom No. 2 Company, Australian Army Service Corps, of Camperdown, Vic. Pte Bloom enlisted fro
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX64236 Private Leonard Charles Moore, 2/29th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandaka
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX31591 Corporal Barney Alan Fletcher, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandaka
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX45168 Private Robert Pallister, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
