SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX6216 Corporal Maxwell Francis John Martin, 8th ...

SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX6216 Corporal Maxwell Francis John Martin, 8th Division Ammunition Sub. Park, Australian Army Service Corps. 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 E Force. The 500 Australian and 500 British POW's who made up E Force, left Changi on 28 March 1943, on board the S.S. DeKlerk arriving at Berhala Island (adjacent to Sandakan Harbour) on 15 April 1943. The POW's were held there until 5 June, when they were taken by barge to Sandakan. The next day they were transferred to the 8 Mile Camp, which was about half a mile from the B Force compound. Corporal Martin, aged 29, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 4 October 1943. He was the son of Francis James Martin and Charlotte Jane Martin, of Evandale, SA. He is buried in the Labuan Cemetery Section P, Row AA, Plot 15. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)