Informal portrait of Aboriginal serviceman, VX61245 Private (Pte) Claude Henry McDonald, of ...

Accession Number P01651.007
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made New Guinea1
Date made c 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal portrait of Aboriginal serviceman, VX61245 Private (Pte) Claude Henry McDonald, of Richmond, Vic. Pte McDonald enlisted on 7 August 1941 in Newtown, Vic, and served with the 10th Australian Despatch Radar Section in New Guinea, Torakina and Bougainville. He was discharged on 9 January 1946.