Accession Number | P04142.001 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Colour - Print hand coloured black & white |
Maker |
Unknown |
Date made | c 1941-1942 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Studio portrait of NX44812 Signalman (Sig) Raymond William Carr, 8th Division Signals. Sig Carr ...
Description
Studio portrait of NX44812 Signalman (Sig) Raymond William Carr, 8th Division Signals. Sig Carr enlisted on 15 September 1941 at the age of seventeen, having given a false date of birth. He became a prisoner of war (POW) and worked on the Burma-Thailand railway. He died of illness on 1 September 1943, aged nineteen.