Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX12727 Private Colin Arthur Foxwell, 2/29th ...

Accession Number P02468.015
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX12727 Private Colin Arthur Foxwell, 2/29th Infantry 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 Foxwell, aged 27, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 8 May 1945. He was the son of Arthur William Bentley Foxwell and Gertrude Foxwell, of Coorparoo, Qld. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 15. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)