The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX59787 Gunner Alfred Ernest Etchell, 4th Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. 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. Gunner Etchell, aged 23, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 16 February 1945. He was the son of Alfred and Rebecca Etchell and the foster-son of Mrs E. Milner, of East St. Kilda, Vic. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 1. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX43489 Gunner Robert Harmer Barratt, 4th Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX32051 Gunner Bernard White, 4th Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the San
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX37083 Gunner Stanley Gordon Johnston, 4th Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX7104 Sapper Dawson Foster, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the San
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX50883 Private Henry Grimwood, No. 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandaka
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX26569 Gunner Charles Harold Kilpatrick, 4th Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) hel
