The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8220 Sapper Eric William Passmore, 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 Passmore, aged 41, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 13 February 1945. He was the son of Arthur and Lucy Passmore. 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 WX6998 Sapper Eric James Gardner, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in th
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX57143 Sapper Leslie George McHenery, Headquarters 8th Division Engineers, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war
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 WX7247 Sapper Leonard James Haye, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in th
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8794 Sapper Henry Arthur Marsh, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in th
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX42365 Sapper Eric Robert Short, 2/10th Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the S
