Studio portrait of SX10105 Private (Pte) Robert Charles Hillman of Yumali, SA. A farmer before ...

Accession Number P07500.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made 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

Studio portrait of SX10105 Private (Pte) Robert Charles Hillman of Yumali, SA. A farmer before enlisting in August 1940, Pte Hillman served in the Pacific campaign with the 2/27 Battalion. He was killed in action during the withdrawal from Mission Ridge along the Kokoda Trail on 8 September 1942, aged 31.