Studio portrait of NX34248 Sergeant (Sgt) Phillip Charles Murray, 2/20 Battalion, of Dulwich ...

Accession Number P08153.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Toned black & white print
Maker Sidney Riley Studios
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made c 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 NX34248 Sergeant (Sgt) Phillip Charles Murray, 2/20 Battalion, of Dulwich Hill, NSW. Sergeant Murray enlisted in June 1940. After training in Australia the 2/20th embarked for Singapore on 2 February 1941. They underwent further training in Malaya and prepared defensive positions against the increasing likelihood of a Japanese invasion of Singapore. The invasion began on 8 February 1942 and Sgt Murray is presumed to have been killed in action on 10 February 1942. He was 36 years of age. Sgt Murray's brother, NX69389 Sgt Donald Arthur Murray served in the 2/3 Motor Ambulance Convoy and died in Borneo as a prisoner of war on 25 March 1945.