The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX7685 Lance Corporal William Reuben Hooper, 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. Lance Corporal Hooper, aged 41, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 21 May 1945. He was the son of John Richard and Kate Hooper, and the husband of Freida Hooper, of Perth, WA. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 6. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8412 Lance Corporal Alan Wilfred Moore, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) he
Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX28818 Lance Corporal Alexander Ivan Woolard, 2/29th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sand
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8467 Acting Lance Corporal Roderick Heslop Campbell Spence, 88 Light Aid Detachment, Australian Army Ordnacne Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied pr
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX7717 Lance Corporal Frank Armstrong, 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 WX10877 Sapper John Baden McDonough, 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 WX8092 Corporal Charles Henry Dunn, Australian Army Postal Corps attached to 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Army Postal Corps. He was one of ov
