NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX36659 Signalman Frank Gordon Franklin, 8th ...

NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX36659 Signalman Frank Gordon Franklin, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps of Signals. 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. Signalman Franklin, aged 38, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 14 February 1945. He was the son of Edward and Margaret Browne Franklin, and the husband of Doreen Frances Franklin, of Wagga Wagga, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 7. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)