Studio portrait of NX175769 Private (Pte) Henry (Harry) Miller Paterson of Sydney, NSW. A dry ...

Accession Number P07834.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital file TIFF
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made 1943
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 NX175769 Private (Pte) Henry (Harry) Miller Paterson of Sydney, NSW. A dry cleaner before enlisting in October 1943, Pte Paterson served in the Pacific campaign with the 2/12 Battalion and was killed in action at Balikpapan on 3 July 1945, aged 19. He is the younger brother of NX72991 Pte Abel Paterson, 8th Division Provost Corps, who was captured at Singapore in February 1942 and died a prisoner of war (POW) in July 1943 (see P07834.001).