Studio portrait of NX1864 Sergeant (Sgt) Arthur Roy Blackwell of Manilla, NSW. A wool classer ...

Accession Number P07214.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
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 NX1864 Sergeant (Sgt) Arthur Roy Blackwell of Manilla, NSW. A wool classer before enlisting in the Second AIF in November 1939, Sgt Blackwell served with the 2/2 Battalion in the Middle East and Pacific campaigns. He was killed in action on the Kokoda Track near Oivi on 5 November 1942, aged 27.