Studio portrait of VX42563 Private Edward Sidney Smith of Delatite, Vic. Enlisting in the Second ...

Accession Number P06425.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
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

Studio portrait of VX42563 Private Edward Sidney Smith of Delatite, Vic. Enlisting in the Second AIF in June 1940, Pte Smith saw active service with the 2/24 Battalion in the Middle Eastern campaign. He was killed in action at El Alamein on 22 July 1942, age 21.