Portrait of 2787478 Private (Pte) Raymond Alfred McGuire, 4th Battalion, The Royal Australian ...

Accession Number P07963.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made c 1968
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright unknown - orphaned work

Description

Portrait of 2787478 Private (Pte) Raymond Alfred McGuire, 4th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (4RAR), of Macquarie Fields, NSW, standing beside a Volkswagen Beetle car. Pte McGuire was killed in action while on patrol in South Vietnam on 16 February 1969, shortly before he was due to return home. He was aged 22 years.