WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8780 Sapper Kenneth Brooks Burley, 2/6th Field ...

WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8780 Sapper Kenneth Brooks Burley, 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. Sapper Burley, aged 40, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 18 May 1945. He was the son of Robert John and Elizabeth Burley, and the husband of Moy Margaret Burley, of Bridgetown, 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.)