Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of TX5821 Private Roy Albert Hardstaff, 2/29th ...

Accession Number P02468.278
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Australia: Tasmania
Date made c September 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of TX5821 Private Roy Albert Hardstaff, 2/29th Battalion, Australian Infantry. 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 Hardstaff, aged 22, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 14 April 1945. He was the son of Albert Edgar and Dora Jeanette Hardstaff, of Burnie, Tas. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 16. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)