Accession Number | P02467.498 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Film copy negative |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX45653 Private Leslie Gooud, 3rd Reserve Motor ...
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX45653 Private Leslie Gooud, 3rd Reserve Motor Transport Company, Australian Army Service 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 Gooud, aged 42, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 18 June 1945. He was the son of James and Ida Gooud, and the husband of Frances Ellen Gooud, of Auburn, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 23. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)