BARAGWANATH Wynne VX20558 B Coy [B Force]

Private Baragwanath was born in Warragul on 26 August 1919. He joined the 2/29th Battalion on 23 February 1941 from the 2/21 Tng Bn.

Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX20558 Private Wynne Baragwanath, 2/29th 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 Baragwanath, aged 25, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 19 March 1945. He was the son of Alexander and Ella Ruth Baragwanath, of East Malvern, Vic. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 16. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)