Informal portrait of NX23418 Private William Wellwood, 2/13th Battalion. A boot maker of ...

Accession Number P05369.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
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

Informal portrait of NX23418 Private William Wellwood, 2/13th Battalion. A boot maker of Lidcombe, NSW, he enlisted on 31 May 1940. He was killed in action, aged 21, on 29 October 1942 in Egypt and is buried at El Alamein War Cemetery.