WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX7717 Lance Corporal Frank Armstrong, 2/4th ...

WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX7717 Lance Corporal Frank Armstrong, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. 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 Armstrong, aged 31, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 30 July 1942. He was the son of Thomas Francis and Catherine Armstrong, of Margaret River, WA. He is buried in the Labuan Cemetery Section Q, Row A, Plot 14. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)