The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX7999 Private Reginald Paul Ferguson, 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 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 Ferguson, aged 32, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 23 March 1945. He was the son of Robert Lewis Ferguson and Ada May Ferguson, and the husband of Ivy Mary Ferguson, of Toodyay, 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 NX50568 Private John Oscar Harris, No. 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sand
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX55455 Private John Ferguson, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW ca
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX45418 Private Horace Davidson Hunter, Headquarters, Australian Imperial Force, Malaya. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX41955 Private John Dennis Guinea, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan P
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX54907 Private Leslie McGill, 2/30th Infantry Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandak
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX9932 Private Frederick Joseph Gladwin, No. 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in th
