Studio portrait of the Rodda family of Northam, WA. Identified from left: nephews Rick and Fred ...

Accession Number P07062.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Western Australia
Date made c 1941
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 the Rodda family of Northam, WA. Identified from left: nephews Rick and Fred (standing); uncle, WX10575 Private (Pte) Bernard Roy Rodda, 2/28 Battalion; niece, Fay; Pte Rodda's sister Ivy. Formerly a station overseer, Pte Rodda enlisted on 14 January 1941 and served in the Middle East in Libya, where he died of wounds on 28 July 1942, aged 42.