Studio portrait of NX111809 Private (Pte) Wallace Vivian Bridle of Tumut, NSW. A labourer before ...

Accession Number P07274.001
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

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

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.