John Black, 1898–1945 (aged 46 years)
- Name
- John /Black/
- Given names
- John
- Surname
- Black
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Note: John enlisted in the Australian Army on 3 Mar 1941 at Paddington. His posting was the 2/3 Motor Ambulance Convoy. 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 Black, aged 46, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 24 March 1945. |
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Cemetery: Lauuan War Cemetery
Address: Jalan Tanjong Batu Road Note: John Black's name is located at panel 79 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. He also is remembered at Panel 22 of the Labuan Memorial, in the Labuan War Cemetery, Malaysia. The Labuan Memorial was primarily intended to commemorate the officers and men of the Australian Army and Air Force who died while prisoners of war in Borneo and the Philippines from 1942 to 1945 and during the 1945 operations for the recovery of Borneo, and have no known grave. Subsequently it was found that a number of men belonging to the local forces of North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei who were killed on war service also have no known grave, and they too are honoured here. Men of the Royal Australian Navy who lost their lives in the south-western Pacific region, and have no grave but the sea, are commemorated on Plymouth Naval Memorial in England, along with many of their comrades of the Royal Navy and of other Commonwealth Naval Forces. This memorial consists of a colonnade forming a forecourt immediately inside the wrought iron gates of the main entrance to the cemetery. On the inner faces of the pillars are bronze panels on which are engraved the names of those whom it honours and the dedicatory inscription is on the frieze facing the entrance. Some of those whose names appear on the memorial are undoubtedly buried in unidentified graves in this cemetery. |
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1863–1954
Birth: June 18, 1863
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— Dural, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death: 1954 — Burwood, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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| mother |
1864–
Birth: July 11, 1864
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— Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death: |
| Marriage | Marriage — 1891 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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1898–1945
Birth: June 19, 1898
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— Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death: March 24, 1945 — Borneo, New Guinea |
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1898–1945
Birth: June 19, 1898
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— Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death: March 24, 1945 — Borneo, New Guinea |
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1899–1936
Birth: 1899
28
— Petersham, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death: 1936 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Marriage | Marriage — 1927 — Woollahra, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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John enlisted in the Australian Army on 3 Mar 1941 at Paddington. His posting was the 2/3 Motor Ambulance Convoy. 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 Black, aged 46, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 24 March 1945. |
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John Black's name is located at panel 79 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. He also is remembered at Panel 22 of the Labuan Memorial, in the Labuan War Cemetery, Malaysia. The Labuan Memorial was primarily intended to commemorate the officers and men of the Australian Army and Air Force who died while prisoners of war in Borneo and the Philippines from 1942 to 1945 and during the 1945 operations for the recovery of Borneo, and have no known grave. Subsequently it was found that a number of men belonging to the local forces of North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei who were killed on war service also have no known grave, and they too are honoured here. Men of the Royal Australian Navy who lost their lives in the south-western Pacific region, and have no grave but the sea, are commemorated on Plymouth Naval Memorial in England, along with many of their comrades of the Royal Navy and of other Commonwealth Naval Forces. This memorial consists of a colonnade forming a forecourt immediately inside the wrought iron gates of the main entrance to the cemetery. On the inner faces of the pillars are bronze panels on which are engraved the names of those whom it honours and the dedicatory inscription is on the frieze facing the entrance. Some of those whose names appear on the memorial are undoubtedly buried in unidentified graves in this cemetery. |
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