NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX41648 Private John Frederick Skinner, 2/10th ...

NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX41648 Private John Frederick Skinner, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. 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 Skinner, aged 31, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 15 August 1945. He was the son of Frederick John and Isabella Skinner, of Tenterfield, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 26. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)