Studio portrait of NX203650 Private (Pte) Maxwell George Eggins of Lismore, NSW. A commercial ...

Accession Number P07149.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made 1945
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 NX203650 Private (Pte) Maxwell George Eggins of Lismore, NSW. A commercial business assistant before enlisting in the Second AIF in May 1944, Pte Eggins served in the Pacific campaign with the 2/24 Battalion. He was killed in action at Tarakan, Borneo, on 9 May 1945, aged 19.