The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX10171 Private Alexis Jacobson, 4th Reserve Motor Transport Company, Australian Army Service Corps. 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 Jacobson, aged 40, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 24 December 1944. He was the son of Mr and Mrs E. Jacobson, of Tallinn, Estonia. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 23. (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
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX72757 Private Thomas Burns, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW cam
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX40763 Private William George Gillespie, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sand
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX63967 Private Samuel James Weir, 2/29th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan PO
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX57114 Private Peter Norman Foote, 2/10th Ordnance Workshops, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied pr
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX30243 Private Reginald James Temple (served as R. J. Moore), 2/19th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (
