Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX60972 Private John Francis Maunsell, 23rd ...

Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX60972 Private John Francis Maunsell, 23rd 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 Maunsell, aged 20, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 19 March 1945. He was the son of John Francis Maunsell and Clara Isabel Maunsell, of Murrumbeena, 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.)