SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX7870 Sergeant Pete Mckenzie Strang, 27th ...

SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX7870 Sergeant Pete Mckenzie Strang, 27th Independent Brigade Group Ordnance Workshop, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. 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. Sergeant Strang, aged 41, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 20 February 1945. He was the son of Herbert Edward and Edith Strang, and the husband of Constance Rubena Strang, of Toorak Gardens, SA. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 28. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)