The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX12011 Sapper Douglass Thomas Davies, 2/6th Field Park 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 Davies, aged 37, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 4 January 1945. He was the son of Thomas and Rosa Davies, of Yorkrakine, WA. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 6. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX7227 Sapper John McFarlane, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sa
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX15404 Sapper Victor Jones, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the San
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8008 Sapper Henry Walter Thurston, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX5339 Sapper Bernard Rowley, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sa
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8053 Sapper Douglas William Howell, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held i
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX13183 Sapper George Edwin Oliver Harvey, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) h
