WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8159 Lance Sergeant Cecil Bertie Blewett, 2/6th ...

WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8159 Lance Sergeant Cecil Bertie Blewett, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian 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. Lance Sergeant Blewett, aged 43, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 23 March 1945. He was the son of John and Agnes Blewett, and the husband of Mary Florence Blewett, of Greenbushes, WA. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 6. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)