Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX38181 Private Leslie Francis Marshall, ...

Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX38181 Private Leslie Francis Marshall, Administration Headquarters, Australian Army Medical 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. Private Marshall, aged 27, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 5 November 1942. He was the son of Netius Godfrey Lamont Marshall and Violet Maud Marshall and the husband of Veronica Marshall, of Glenferrie, Vic. He is buried in the Labuan Cemetery Section R, Row A, Plot 12. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)