NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX40355 Private Herbert John Monaghan, 2/18th ...

NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX40355 Private Herbert John Monaghan, 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 Monaghan, aged 33, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 29 March 1945. He was the son of Martin Joseph and Margaret Monaghan, of Belmore, 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.)