Accession Number | P02467.790 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Film copy negative |
Place made | Australia: New South Wales |
Date made | 1949-10-18 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX65715 Driver John Townshend Glennie, 8 Division ...
Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX65715 Driver John Townshend Glennie, 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. Driver Glennie, aged 34, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 15 March 1945. He was the son of George John Townshend Glennie and Alice Mary Glennie, of Epping, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 22. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)