The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8865 Private Rolf Walker Newling, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. 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. Private Newling, aged 33, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 13 June 1945. He was the son of William John and Lillian Mary Newling, of Leederville, WA. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 18. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX27496 Private John Mahoney, General Base Depot, Malaya, . He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp in nort
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX7227 Sapper John McFarlane, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sa
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX35466 Corporal John Rae, 2/19th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp i
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX7134 Sapper Arthur George Grigson, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX51563 Private Neville Gordon Walker, No. 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX42402 Private Henry Walter Menzies, 2/19th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan
