The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8123 Private Herbert Alfred Thomas Chilvers, 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 Chilvers, aged 33, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 31 March 1945. He was the son of Alfred and Eleanor Maria Chilvers, and the husband of Doris Kathleen Chilvers, of Byford, 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.)
Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX2140 Private Leslie Richard Erwin (served under the alias Richard George Irwin), 2/19 Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied priso
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX32345 Private Thomas John Clydsdale, 2/4th Field Workshops, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied pri
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX31417 Private Albert Reginald Boyce, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandaka
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 WX5447 Signalman Tom Savage, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps of Signals. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandak
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX6479 Signalman Ernest Savage, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps of Signals. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the San
