Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX18486 Private Charles John Selwyn Bice, 2/29th ...

Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX18486 Private Charles John Selwyn Bice, 2/29th 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 Bice, aged 31, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 28 January 1945. He was the son of Robert Maunsell Bice and Charlotte Bice, of Drillham, 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.)