NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX14900 Lance Sergeant Fred Lindsay Staggs, ...

NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX14900 Lance Sergeant Fred Lindsay Staggs, 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. Lance Sergeant Staggs, aged 52, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 31 March 1945. He was the son of John and Jemima Isabel Staggs, and the husband of Alice Grace Staggs, of Inverell, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 9. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)