Studio portrait of NX51899 Corporal Edward Victor Emmett, 2/10 Field Ambulance. Corporal Emmett ...

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Accession Number P02265.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales
Date made 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of NX51899 Corporal Edward Victor Emmett, 2/10 Field Ambulance. Corporal Emmett was shot and killed on 1945-06-18 by Japanese soldiers eleven days after escaping from the Sandakan to Ranau Death March with five other Australian prisoners of war (POW). The only survivor of the group was Gunner Owen Campbell, 2/10 Field Regiment.