Studio portrait of 6349 Private (Pte) James Lee Street, 3rd Battalion, of Chatswood, NSW. Pte ...

Studio portrait of 6349 Private (Pte) James Lee Street, 3rd Battalion, of Chatswood, NSW. Pte Street was a civil servant prior to enlisting on 13 March 1916. He embarked from Sydney on HMAT Euripides on 9 September 1916 with the 20th Reinforcements. He returned to Australia on 28 February 1919. In the Second World War he served with the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles with the service number NG4036. He enlisted in the Second AIF on 21 January 1942, and was allocated the service number NGX495. Having been taken prisoner by the Japanese following the successful Japanese attack on Rabaul on 23 January 1942, he was one of approximately 160 Australian soldiers massacred by the Japanese in a series of separate incidents at the Tol Plantation in New Britain on 4 February 1942.