NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX44954 Private Charles Keith Marsh, 2/19th ...

NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX44954 Private Charles Keith Marsh, 2/19th 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 Marsh, aged 29, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 8 November 1944. He was the son of David Francis and Jane Ann Marsh, of Wollongong, NSW. He is buried in the Labuan Cemetery Section N, Row A, Plot 10. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)