Studio portrait of NX68071 Driver (Dvr) Herbert Arthur Close, 3 Reserve Motor Transport Company, ...

Accession Number P07529.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Print
Maker Unknown
Date made c 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 NX68071 Driver (Dvr) Herbert Arthur Close, 3 Reserve Motor Transport Company, AASC, of Campsie, NSW. Dvr Close was a carpenter and joiner before enlisting in Paddington, NSW, on 30 January 1941. He died of illness on 7 February 1944 on the Burma-Thailand railway, while prisoner of war (POW) of the Japanese.