Studio portrait of SX10061 Private (Pte) Colin Lindsay Beaton, 2/2 Reserve Motor Transport ...

Accession Number P06966.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Print hand-coloured black & white
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: South 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 SX10061 Private (Pte) Colin Lindsay Beaton, 2/2 Reserve Motor Transport Company, Australian Army Service Corps, of Tantanoola, SA. Pte Beaton enlisted at Adelaide, SA, on 7 August 1940 and served in Malaya. He was captured by the Japanese in January or February 1942 and died of illness on 14 May 1944.