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Reference ID :
016-001-0001
Source:
AWM232 Records of Australian Military Forces prisoners of war and missing, Far East and South West Pacific Islands (Australian War Memorial)
Access date:
Saturday, 26 September, 2020
URL:
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C33482…
Transcript:

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 POWs 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 Morgan, aged 29, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 9 June 1945. He was the son of John and Maud Blanch Morgan. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 16.

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Norman Leslie John Morgan (1915-1945)
Sandakan   1942
Norman Leslie John Morgan (1915-1945)
Death   9 June 1945
Private Norman Leslie Morgan VX34894
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX34894 Private Norman Leslie Morgan, 2/29th Battalion, Australian Infantry
P02468.372 Australian War Memorial