Accession Number | P02468.753 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Film copy negative |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX10929 Corporal Roy Griffith Gould, 4th Reserve ...
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX10929 Corporal Roy Griffith Gould, 4th Reserve Motor Transport Company, Australian Army Service 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. Trooper Gould, aged 39, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 3 May 1945. He was the son of George and Eliazabeth Gould, and the husband of Nancey Winsome Stewart Gould Gould, of Perth, WA. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 21. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)