The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX10966 Private Evan Thomas, 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 Thomas, aged 38, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 21 March 1945. He was the son of David and Elizabeth Margaret Thomas, and the husband of Kathleen Margaret Thomas, of Perth, WA. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 25. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX10403 Private Claude Thomas Larcombe, Headquarters Australian Imperial Force, Malaya, . He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX69230 Sergeant Thomas Haddon, 2/3rd Motor Ambulance Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) hel
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX20743 Private Roy Edward Turner, 2/29th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan PO
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX55145 Private Henry Hensby, Headquarters 8 Division, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX40286 Corporal Gordon Montague Neaves, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sanda
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX32677 Private Evan David Davies, 2/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan PO
