P03634.001 Accession Number: P03634.001

Description

Group portrait of seven members of the 2/10 Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. Identified back row, left to right: QX15144 Gunner (Gnr) Frederick Phillip (Fred) Wright; Reg Ward; QX16280 Gnr George (Geordie) Strachan, Reg Bullock. Front row: Colin Roberts, Gerry Gore, QX9284 Gnr Arthur Knight (Bung) Winks. Gunners Wright, Strachan and Winks were later part of a group 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. Gnr Strachan, aged 45, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 6 April 1945; Gnr Wright, aged 25, died of illness on 12 June 1945; and Gnr Winks, aged 41, died of illness on 7 July 1945.

Details

Accession Number
P03634.001
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Date Made
c 1941
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor J Mann, from the collection of Lucy Mann
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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