The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 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 Prior, aged 40, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 18 April 1945. He was the son of Henry and Charlotte Prior, and the husband of Hetty Prior, of Mount Hawthorn, 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 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 WX8566 Craftsman Charles Robert McKenna, 86th Light Aid Detachment, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allie
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8003 Private Alexander Meora Hack, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX67018 Craftsman Bryan Garrett Gaynor, Base Ordnance Workshop, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied pr
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX10920 Craftsman Neville Ernest Bailey, 88th Light Aid Detachment, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX9888 Sapper George Jesse Howe Smith, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held
