Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX67161 Craftsman Eric Roy Anderson, 2/10th ...

Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX67161 Craftsman Eric Roy Anderson, 2/10th Ordnance Workshop, 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. Craftsman Anderson, aged 25, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 9 February 1945. He was the son of Leslie Alexandera and Edith Maud Anderson, of Coburg, 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.)