Studio portrait of VX25109 Private (Pte) William Francis Boyce, of the 2/21st Battalion, part of ...

Accession Number P04868.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1940
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 VX25109 Private (Pte) William Francis Boyce, of the 2/21st Battalion, part of Gull Force. Pte Boyce enlisted on 11 June 1940 at Caulfield, Victoria. Taken prisoner of war (POW) by the Japanese he was transported to Tantui on the island of Ambon, Netherlands East Indies. He was murdered by the Japanese whilst a prisoner on 24 July 1945, aged 26.

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