NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX67279 Private Harold David Matchett, No. 2 ...

NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX67279 Private Harold David Matchett, No. 2 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. 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 Matchett, aged 43, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 22nd July 1945. He was the son of David James Matchett and Alice Mary Matchett, and the husband of Elsie Matchett, of Kogarah, 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.)