The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8461 Sapper Gordon William Henry Milne, 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 Milne, aged 41, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 14 February 1945. He was the son of Charles Henry and Elizabeth Frances Milne, and the husband of Augusta May Milne, of Cottesloe, WA. 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 WX8008 Sapper Henry Walter Thurston, 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 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 WX7360 Sapper Gilbert Lawrence Cottle Field, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW)
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
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX13183 Sapper George Edwin Oliver Harvey, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) h
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX7015 Sapper Henry Edward McAppion, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
