SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX8372 Sergeant Keith Edwin Ellis, No. 1 Company, ...

SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX8372 Sergeant Keith Edwin Ellis, No. 1 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. Sergeant Ellis, aged 42, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 21 January 1945. He was the son of Walter and Ellen Florence Ellis, and the husband of Lily Florence Ellis, of Port Adelaide, SA. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 20. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)