The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 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. Sapper Smith, aged 34, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 8 March 1943. He was the son of Wilfred and Elizabeth Smith and the husband of Jeanette Smith, of Perth, WA. He is buried in the Labuan Cemetery Section R, Row A, Plot 1. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX7634 Private Sydney Albert Osborne, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in th
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX29513 Corporal Patrick John McGrath, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandaka
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX56152 Private David Gloag, 2/30th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp
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
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX9668 Sapper William Gordon Evans, 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 NX67705 Private Charles Henry Forrester, 2/19th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sanda
