Informal group portrait of members of the 21st Light Horse Regiment (Riverina Horse) on parade ...

Accession Number P07051.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Toned black & white print
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Wagga Wagga
Date made c1939
Conflict Period 1930-1939
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal group portrait of members of the 21st Light Horse Regiment (Riverina Horse) on parade at the Wagga Wagga Showgrounds. 66218 Trooper Clive Charles Swaysland (later NX16332 Corporal C S Swaysland 2/13th Battalion) is second from right. His younger brother 66219 Trooper Ronald Keith Swaysland is third from the right. The other men are unidentified. After serving with the 2/13th Battalion in the Middle East during the Second World War, Corporal Swaysland was killed in action 28 September 1943 at Finschhafen, New Guinea.