The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8488 Warrant Officer Class 2 Thomas Spurling, 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. Warrant Officer Class 2 Spurling, aged 42, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 11 March 1945. He was the son of John Samuel and Florrie Spurling, and the husband of Edith Emily Spurling, of Fremantle, WA. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 6. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8431 Warrant Officer Class 2 Vivian Albert Keay, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (PO
Studio portrait of QX17783 Warrant Officer Class 2 Charles Young Watson, No. 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW ca
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX67296 Warrant Officer Class 2 Robert William Sykes, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of wa
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX40573 Warrant Officer Class 2 Norman Lawrie Maddock, 4th Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX47044 Warrant Officer Class 2 Thomas Clarence Taylor, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX17585 Warrant Officer Class 2 John James Chapman, 2/3rd Ordnance Store Company, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prison
