P02468.565 Accession Number: P02468.565

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Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX60012 Private Donald Clarence Cheyne Wraight, 27th Brigade Ordnance Field Park, Australian Army Ordnance 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 Wraight, aged 43, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 11 February 1945. He was the son of William Chene Wraight and Adelaide Wraight, and the husband of Moira Victoria Wraight, of Caulfield, Vic. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 28. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02468.565
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Film copy negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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