Accession Number | P02468.413 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Film copy negative |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX38000 Signalman Edwin James Moore, 8th ...
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX38000 Signalman Edwin James Moore, 8th Division Signals, Australian Corps of Signals. 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. Signalman Moore, aged 32, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 1 July 1945. He was the son of Charles Edwin and Margaret Gertrude Moore, and the husband of Katherine Laura Moore, of Carnegie, Vic. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 8. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)