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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 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. Acting Lance Corporal Spence, aged 40, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 31 May 1945. He was the son of James and Katherine Elizabeth Spence, and the husband of Winifred Beryl Spence, of Applecross, WA. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 29. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
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 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
SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX11627 Lance Corporal Ernest Alfred Barkla, 4th Reserve Motor Transport Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoner
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)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX72749 Acting Corporal John Jackson, 8th Divisional Provost Company, Australian Army Provost Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (P
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
