NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX72705 Private James Frederick Anderson, 2/18th ...

NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX72705 Private James Frederick Anderson, 2/18th 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 Anderson, aged 39, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 10 June 1945. He was the son of James and Florence Annabella Anderson, and the husband of Jean Arley Anderson, of South Grafton, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 10. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)