P02468.757 Accession Number: P02468.757

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WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX11731 Private Trevor Lloyd Ainsworth, No. 1 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 Ainsworth, aged 24, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 9 June 1945. He was the son of Frank Joseph and Gladys Harvey Ainsworth, of Mount Hawthorn, WA. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 22. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)

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Accession Number
P02468.757
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Brand: Ilford – HP5
Support: Acetate
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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