The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8548 Staff Sergeant Ian Stuchbury, 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. Staff Sergeant Stuchbury, aged 42, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 17 November 1944. He was the son of Frederick Alexander and Ida Rose Stuchbury, of Victoria Park, WA. He is buried in the Labuan Cemetery Section N, Row A, Plot 12. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX9668 Sapper William Gordon Evans, 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 WX9230 Private Walter Cyril Evans, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the S
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8090 Sapper Lewis Norman Hasluck, 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 WX3118 Sapper Robert Bruce Wood, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the
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 WX11665 Corporal William Andrew Swan, 2/10th Ordnance Workshop, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied pr
