Studio portrait of WX9598 Corporal (Cpl) William Blain, 9th Division Provost Company, of ...

Accession Number P07012.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker E Sampey Studios
Place made Australia: Western Australia, Perth
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 WX9598 Corporal (Cpl) William Blain, 9th Division Provost Company, of Witchcliffe, WA. Cpl Blain was a farmworker and truck driver before enlisting in Perth, WA on 4 December 1940. He died of wounds in New Guinea on 4 September 1943, at the age of 32.