Studio portrait of VX48258 Captain, later Major (Maj), Gilbert Ferguson Urquhart of Yarram, Vic. ...

Accession Number P07810.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
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 VX48258 Captain, later Major (Maj), Gilbert Ferguson Urquhart of Yarram, Vic. An accountant before enlisting in July 1940, Maj Urquhart served in the Middle East with the 2/23 Battalion and was killed in action at El Alamein on 22 July 1942, aged 31.