Hand coloured portrait of WX4042 Private George Laurence Beattie, 2/16th Battalion. A labourer of ...

Accession Number P05479.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Print hand coloured black & white
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
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

Hand coloured portrait of WX4042 Private George Laurence Beattie, 2/16th Battalion. A labourer of Fremantle, WA, he enlisted on 30 May 1940. He was killed in action in Syria, aged 32, on 19 June 1941 and is buried at Beyrouth War Cemetery.

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