NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX14526 Private Arthur William John Woolnough, ...

NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX14526 Private Arthur William John Woolnough, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. 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 Woolnough, aged 30, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 15 February 1945. He was the son of Arthur and Kate Woolnough, and the husband of Edith Amelia Woolnough, of Empire Vale, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 11. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)