The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX59912 Private Kevin Costello, 27th Brigade Group 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 E Force. The 500 Australian and 500 British POW's who made up E Force, left Changi on 28 March 1943, on board the S.S. DeKlerk arriving at Berhala Island (adjacent to Sandakan Harbour) on 15 April 1943. The POW's were held there until 5 June, when they were taken by barge to Sandakan. The next day they were transferred to the 8 Mile Camp, which was about half a mile from the B Force compound. Private Costello, aged 28, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 1 July 1945. He was the son of Johanna Costello, of Ensay, 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 NX18955 Private James William Joseph Ince, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the San
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX49347 Private Edward Cyril Crosby Hackland (served as C. J. Toohey), 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX35254 Private Claude Russell Boyle, 2/19th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX61527 Corporal Bryce Sheppard Bird, 2/10th Ordnance Workshop, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied p
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX65027 Private Walter James Carson, 2/10th Ordnance Workshop, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied pr
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX22115 Private William Joseph Bowe, 2/9th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held i
