Informal portrait of Desmond Arthur White who enlisted with the 42nd Battalion as VX93186 Private ...

Place Oceania: Pacific Islands, Solomon Islands, Bougainville
Accession Number P05715.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Victoria
Date made c 1938
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal portrait of Desmond Arthur White who enlisted with the 42nd Battalion as VX93186 Private White. He died, aged 20, on 2 August 1945 of wounds sustained while fighting the Japanese on Bougainville.