Informal portrait of four soldiers of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) ...

Accession Number P04436.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Place made Japan: Tokyo
Date made 1952
Conflict Korea, 1950-1953
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Informal portrait of four soldiers of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) enjoying a drink at the Shinjuku Beer Hall in Tokyo, left to right: 2400654 Private (Pte) Gerald James Longley, of Yass, NSW; probably 11909 Pte Raymond John C Smith, originally of Bournemouth, England; 310764 Pte Edward Francis (Ted) Olivant, of Leicester, England, and 2401173 Pte Edmund George ‘Sonny’ Bourke, 2RAR, of Langley Vale, NSW, who is presumed dead missing in action on 7 June 1953 in Korea.

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