NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX65864 Private Mervin Eric Hannan, 2/3rd Motor ...

NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX65864 Private Mervin Eric Hannan, 2/3rd Motor Ambulance 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. Private Hannan, aged 36, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 5 February 1945. He was the son of Michael Thomas Hannan and Almenea Susan Hannan, of Kyogle, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 23. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)