Studio portrait of QX7387 Sergeant (Sgt) George Walter Weier, right, and his older brother ...

Accession Number P04042.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Maker Villaume
Place made Australia: Queensland, Toowoomba
Date made c 1942
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 QX7387 Sergeant (Sgt) George Walter Weier, right, and his older brother QX19283 Private (Pte) Edward Otto Weier. Both of Gatton, Qld, the brothers served with the 2/31 Battalion. Sgt G W Weier enlisted on 1 May 1940, and, after four years of active service, was killed in action three days after his battalion landed at the beach in Balikpapan, Borneo on 3 July 1945.