NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX51622 Private John William Francis Corbett, ...

NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX51622 Private John William Francis Corbett, 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 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 Corbett, aged 25, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 4 March 1945. He was the son of Linda Corbett, of Sydney, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 12. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)