Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX22525 Private Kenneth Alwyne Faulkner Dixon, ...

Qld. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX22525 Private Kenneth Alwyne Faulkner Dixon, Australian Army Medical Corps attached to 2/29th Battalion. 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 Dixon, aged 31, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on Australian Army Medical Corps6 March 1945. He was the son of Joseph Alwyne Dixon and Margaret Maude Dixon, of Boonah, Qld. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 26. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)