Tas. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of TX4471 Driver Walter Percy Chapman, 2/3rd Motor ...

Tas. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of TX4471 Driver Walter Percy Chapman, 2/3rd Motor Ambulance Company, 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 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. Driver Chapman, aged 40, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 10 February 1945. He was the son of Walter Percy and Ella May Chapman, and the husband of Jean Viney Chapman, of Kingston Beach, Tas. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 21. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)