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Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX60640 Craftsman William Franklin Roberts, 22nd 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 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. Craftsman Roberts, aged 31, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 30 March 1945. He was the son of Henry Caradoc Roberts and Williamina Beatrice Roberts, of Northcote, 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.)
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX30008 Craftsman Douglas John May, 22nd Independent Brigade Group Ordnance Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied pr
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX37645 Craftsman Jack Herbert Butherway, 22nd Independent Brigade Group Ordnance Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 All
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX52700 Craftsman Clyde Raymond McCulloch, 22nd Independent Brigade Group Workshop, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one o
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX61709 Craftsman William George Perry, 22nd Brigade Ordnance Workshop, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one of over 2000
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX62247 Craftsman Ronald William Pontin, 22nd Independent Brigade Group Workshop, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one of
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX38074 Craftsman Reginald George Barnes, 22nd Independent Grigade Group Ordnance Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 All
