Informal portrait of NX38912 Private (Pte) Raymond Anthony Mercer, 2/13 Battalion, of Balmain, ...

Accession Number P08182.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
Maker Unknown
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

Informal portrait of NX38912 Private (Pte) Raymond Anthony Mercer, 2/13 Battalion, of Balmain, NSW. Pte Mercer enlisted in the AMF in October 1940 and in the 2nd AIF on 16 July 1941. He was killed in action at El Alamein, Egypt on 25 October 1942. Pte Mercer was 29 years of age.