Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX56429 Private John Alan Taylor, 8 Division Supply ...

Accession Number P02467.710
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Place made Australia: New South Wales
Date made 20 November 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX56429 Private John Alan Taylor, 8 Division Supply Column. 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 POWs 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 Taylor, aged 27, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 5 February 1945. He was the son of Francis John and Florida Taylor, of Enmore, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 24. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)