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WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX7043 Private Harold Bernard Lear, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. 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 E Force. The 500 Australian and 500 British POW's who made up E Force, left Changi on 28 March 1943, on board the S.S. DeKlerk arriving at Berhala Island (adjacent to Sandakan Harbour) on 15 April 1943. The POW's were held there until 5 June, when they were taken by barge to Sandakan. The next day they were transferred to the 8 Mile Camp, which was about half a mile from the B Force compound. Private Lear, aged 25, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 17 March 1945. He was the son of Alfred Frederick and Maud Isabel Lear, and the husband of Veronica Mae Lear, of Bassendean, WA. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 18. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX49269 Private Hector Hamilton, 2/19th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX36653 Signalman George Daniel Conquit, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps Of Signals. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX7266 Private George Henry Edwards, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX4891 Corporal George Smith, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandak
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX5018 Private Charles Baden Shelvock, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in t
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX5222 Private Leslie O'Neil, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandak
