Hand coloured studio portrait of NX35866 Private (Pte) Gordon Poole from Yenda, New South Wales. ...

Accession Number P06105.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Digital file
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
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

Hand coloured studio portrait of NX35866 Private (Pte) Gordon Poole from Yenda, New South Wales. Pte Poole enlisted in June 1940 and served in the Pacific with the 2/20 Battalion. He was captured by Japanese forces at Singapore in February 1942 and died whilst a prisoner of war (POW) on 1 October 1944.