Studio portrait of VX45220 Corporal (Cpl) Ronald James (Ron) Barassi, 7th Division Supply Column, ...

Accession Number P05107.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
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 VX45220 Corporal (Cpl) Ronald James (Ron) Barassi, 7th Division Supply Column, Australian Army Service Corps, of Footscray, Vic. Barassi played in the position of rover for the Melbourne Football Club between 1936 and 1940. He was one of four Melbourne premiership players - Keith ‘Bluey’ Truscott, Sid Anderson and Harold Ball who were killed in action during the Second World War. Barassi enlisted on 15 July 1940 and died of wounds on 31 July 1941, in Tobruk, aged 27 years.

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