WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8092 Corporal Charles Henry Dunn, Australian ...

Accession Number P02468.691
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8092 Corporal Charles Henry Dunn, Australian Army Postal Corps attached to 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Army Postal 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. Corporal Dunn, aged 44, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 21 March 1945. He was the husband of Doris Dunn, of Bayswater, WA. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 31. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)