Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX24791 Bombardier Frank Gordon Blanchard ...

Accession Number P02468.318
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX24791 Bombardier Frank Gordon Blanchard Robinson, 4th Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. 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. Bombardier Robinson, aged 25, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 14 February 1945. He was the son of Frank William and Marion Ena Lottie Robinson, of Upper Hawthorn, Vic. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 1. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)