Studio portrait of brothers, VX40139 Private (Pte) Lawrence Anthony Egan (left) and VX42964 Pte ...

Accession Number P05668.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Victoria
Date made 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 brothers, VX40139 Private (Pte) Lawrence Anthony Egan (left) and VX42964 Pte Joseph John (Joe) Egan (right), of Allansford, Vic. Both enlisted with the 2/23rd Battalion on 29 June 1940, and Pte Joe Egan was killed in action in Tobruk, Libya, on 17 May 1941, aged 24.