Studio portrait of NX44812 Signalman (Sig) Raymond William Carr, 8th Division Signals. Sig Carr ...

Accession Number P04142.001
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

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

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.

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