Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX56999 Private William Alfred Macaulay, 22nd ...

Accession Number P02468.541
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX56999 Private William Alfred Macaulay, 22nd Brigade Ordnance Field Park, Australian Army Ordnance 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 Macaulay, aged 45, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 29 April 1945. He was the son of William and Alice Macaulay, and the husband of Janet Isabella Macaulay, of Myrtleford, Vic. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 28. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)