Sepia-toned studio portrait of NX67194 Lieutenant (Lt) Ivan Stanley Clarke, 36th Battalion. Lt ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Owen Stanley Range, Buna Area, Sanananda
Accession Number P07080.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
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

Sepia-toned studio portrait of NX67194 Lieutenant (Lt) Ivan Stanley Clarke, 36th Battalion. Lt Clarke was born at Adelaide, SA, and was a grazier at Running Stream near Mudgee, NSW. He he enlisted at Paddington, NSW, 14 January 1940. Lt Clarke was killed by a Japanese sniper on 29 December 1942 during the battalion attack on Sanananda, Papua New Guinea. He was 31 years old.