AWM-P02467.665) Description NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX54534 Private Colin Cyril Asgill, 2/30th 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. Private Asgill, aged 25, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 17 July 1945. He was the son of Ernest and Mary Asgill, and the husband of Pearl Mary Asgill, of Parkes, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 17. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.) (AWM-P02467.665) Australian War Memorial - Canberra, ACT, Australia.
ervice Number: NX54534
Enlisted: 25 June 1940
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/30th Infantry Battalion
Born: Bogan Gate, Central West Region, New South Wales, Australia, 31 January 1920
Home Town: Parkes, Parkes, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Illness (POW of Japan), Borneo, 17 July 1945, aged 25 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
(CWGC) Official Commemoration - Memorial Location: Panel 17, Labuan Memorial (within Labuan War Cemetery) Labuan Federal Territory. Roll of Honour: Memorial at Parkes, Central West Region, NSW
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Parkes & District Cenotaph, Parkes Remembrance Walk
Son of Ernest & Mathilda Elizabeth May ASGILL.

Spouse: Pearl Mary ASGILL, of Parkes, Central Western Region, New South Wales.