The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX5339 Sapper Bernard Rowley, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian 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. Sapper Rowley, aged 43, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 16 March 1945. He was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Mary Rowley, and the husband of Florence Ann Rowley, of Wickepin, WA. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 7. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8683 Sapper Sydney Glover, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the San
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX7472 Sapper Alwyn Douglas Cadwgan, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8008 Sapper Henry Walter Thurston, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX7360 Sapper Gilbert Lawrence Cottle Field, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW)
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX7054 Sapper Sydney Charles Goldfinch, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX7134 Sapper Arthur George Grigson, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
