NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX43489 Private Aubrey Amos Loveridge, 2/18th ...

NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX43489 Private Aubrey Amos Loveridge, 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 E Force. The 500 Australian and 500 British POW's who made up E Force, left Changi on 28 March 1943, on board the S.S. DeKlerk arriving at Berhala Island (adjacent to Sandakan Harbour) on 15 April 1943. The POW's were held there until 5 June, when they were taken by barge to Sandakan. The next day they were transferred to the 8 Mile Camp, which was about half a mile from the B Force compound. Private Loveridge, aged 42, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 9 January 1945. He was the son of Hugh Albert and Gertrude May Loveridge, of Junee, 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.)