Studio portrait of VX11656 Private (Pte) William Angus McDonald of Melbourne, Vic. A farm ...

Accession Number P07757.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made 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 VX11656 Private (Pte) William Angus McDonald of Melbourne, Vic. A farm labourer before enlisting in March 1940, Pte McDonald served in the Pacific campaign with the 2/31 Battalion and was killed whilst on patrol near Ioribaiwa on the Kokoda Track on 14 September 1942, aged 34.