Accession Number | P05118.001 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | |
Maker |
Unknown |
Date made | c 1943-1946 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Photograph : NX172241 Craftsman R W Simmons, RAEME
Description
Informal portrait of NX172241 (N452827) Craftsman (Cfn) Reginald William Simmons, who was born in Manly, NSW, on 22 February, 1925, and enlisted at Bathurst, NSW, on 28 May 1943. Cfn Simmons served with the 8th Watercraft Workshops, Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RAEME), within Australia during the Second World War and in New Guinea immediately after the Armistice. He was discharged on 10 December 1946.