Accession Number | P02468.090 |
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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 |
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX17149 Lance Corporal John Valentine Kealey, ...
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of QX17149 Lance Corporal John Valentine Kealey, No. 2 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. Lance Corporal Kealey, aged 35, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 30 July 1945. He was the son of John Valentine and Hannah Kealey, and the husband of Daphne Kealey, of Bexhill, NSW. 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.)