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Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX64440 Private Stanley William Ward, 27th Brigade 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. Private Ward, aged 22, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 2 April 1945. He was the son of William John and Violet Ward, of West Footscray, Vic. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 30. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX64876 Private Roy Ward, 27th Brigade Group Ordnance Workshop, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied p
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX59476 Private James William Hugh Duncan, 2/10th Ordnance Workshop, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one of over 2000 All
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX65245 Private George Horace Capper, 27th Brigade Ordnance Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX37947 Private William Edwin Boyes, 2/29th 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 VX54880 Craftsman Gordon Henry Bartils, 2/10th Ordnance Workshop, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW)
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX36935 Private John Kingston Bird, No. 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the San
