SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX12793 Private Leslie Alfred Wilson, 2/3rd ...

SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX12793 Private Leslie Alfred Wilson, 2/3rd Ordnance Store Company, Australian Army Ordnance 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. Private Wilson, aged 33, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 30 December 1944. He was the son of Charles and Ada Alice Wilson, and the husband of Mary Isobel Wilson, of Semaphore, 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.)