NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX60225 Private Mervyn Francis Moore, 2/19th ...

NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX60225 Private Mervyn Francis Moore, 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 Moore, aged 31, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 13 February 1945. He was the son of William and Jane Moore, and the husband of Catherine Mary Moore, of Dalgety, 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.)