Accession Number | P07274.001 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Digital file TIFF |
Maker |
Vincent, E |
Date made | 1942 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Studio portrait of NX111809 Private (Pte) Wallace Vivian Bridle of Tumut, NSW. A labourer before ...
Description
Studio portrait of NX111809 Private (Pte) Wallace Vivian Bridle of Tumut, NSW. A labourer before enlisting in the Second AIF in July 1942, Pte Bridle served in the Pacific campaign with the 2/12 Battalion. He was killed in action during the battalion's attack on Japanese positions at Canning's Saddle during the Battle of Shaggy Ridge in New Guinea on 22 January 1944, aged 26.