Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX59423 Private Ronald Frederick Hankinson, ...

Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX59423 Private Ronald Frederick Hankinson, 2/10th Ordnance Workshops, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. 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 Hankinson, aged 41, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 7 June 1945. He was the son of Frederick William and Edith Laura Hankinson, and the husband of Lena Hankinson, of Harcourt, Vic. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 29. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)