NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX49839 Private Henry Alfred Morton, 2/18th ...

NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX49839 Private Henry Alfred Morton, 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 Morton, aged 35, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 31 March 1945. He was the son of Henry and Edith Morton, and the husband of Gladys Ruth Morton, of Gulf Creek, 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.)