Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX54292 Private Robert Aubrey McCormack, 2/20th ...

Accession Number P02467.660
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX54292 Private Robert Aubrey McCormack, 2/20th 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 McCormack, aged 41, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 15 April 1945. He was the son of William Robert and Letitia Alice McCormack, and the husband of Edith Elsie Isabel McCormack, of Ashgrove, Qld. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 14. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)