The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8566 Craftsman Charles Robert McKenna, 86th Light Aid Detachment, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical 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. Craftsman McKenna, aged 34, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 1 February 1945. He was the son of Walter and Emma Augusta McKenna, and the husband of Floris Jeanette McKenna, of Victoria Park, 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 WX11588 Sapper Ernest Smith, 2/6th Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX9562 Sergeant Ivor Edwin Thorley, 86th Light Aid Detachment, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied pri
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX65845 Craftsman Frederick Arthur Launder, 84th Light Aid Detachment, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Al
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX9135 Craftsman Leslie Prior, 2/10th Ordnance Workshop, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8683 Sapper Sydney Glover, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the San
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) he
