Portrait of NX73569 Private (Pte) Lisle Gerard Rowe of Bellata, NSW, and his bride Jessica Elaine ...

Accession Number P07839.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker The Leicagraph Co. Pty Ltd
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Portrait of NX73569 Private (Pte) Lisle Gerard Rowe of Bellata, NSW, and his bride Jessica Elaine Rowe (nee Holland) cutting their wedding cake on their wedding day. Enlisting in the Second AIF in December 1941, Pte Rowe served in the Pacific campaign with the 2/31 Battalion and was killed in action during the attack on Lae on 15 September 1943, aged 22.