The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX62006 Craftsman Albert James Lowe, 2/10th 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 Lowe, aged 31, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 17 March 1945. He was the son of William and Alice Lowe, and the husband of Catherine Lena Lowe, of Ascot Vale, 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 VX45352 Driver Francis James Fitzpatrick, 4th Reserve Motor Transport Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX66324 Craftsman Kenneth Norman Powell, 2/10th Ordnance Workshop, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allie
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX66054 Craftsman Herbert John Stewart, 2/10th Ordnance Workshop, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX39881 Sergeant Edward George Brown, 4th Reserve Motor Transport Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of w
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX62776 Private Reginald James Veal, 2/10th Ordnance Section Workshop, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one of over 2000 A
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX20752 Sapper Francis Vincent Walsh, 2/10th Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in t
