Accession Number | P02468.160 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Film copy negative |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX21994 Gunner Albert Dale, 2/15th Field ...
Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX21994 Gunner Albert Dale, 2/15th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. 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. Gunner Dale, aged 38, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 14 February 1945. He was the son of Joseph Henry and Evelyn Dale and the husband of Theresa Edna Nac Dale, of Coorparoo, Qld. He is buried in the Labuan Cemetery Section 21, Row B, Plot 3. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)