NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX60135 Private Donald George Campbell Young, ...

NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX60135 Private Donald George Campbell Young, 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 Young, aged 34, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 21 June 1945. He was the husband of Mrs M. A. Young, of Concord, NSW. 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.)