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Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX59467 Signalman Jack McMartin, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps of Signals. 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. Signalman McMartin, aged 23, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 7 August 1945. He was the son of John and Helene Jessie McMartin, of Thornton, Vic. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 8. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX28139 Signalman David Marshall Argo, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps of Signals. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX35804 Signalman Noel Lewis Downward, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps of Signals. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX58301 Signalman Robert Edward Archibald Fingher, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps of Signals. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX64262 Signalman Albert Edward Johnson, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps of Signals. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX63472 Signalman Charles Henry King, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps of Signals. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX53102 Signalman Baden Leith Sefton, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps of Signals. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
