Studio portrait of VX44162 Captain (Capt) (later Temporary Major) Richard Erskine Travers, 2/22 ...

Accession Number P08336.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Toned black & white print
Maker Unknown
Place made Malaya
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 VX44162 Captain (Capt) (later Temporary Major) Richard Erskine Travers, 2/22 Battalion, of Metung, Vic. Capt Travers enlisted on 3 July 1940 at Caulfield, Vic. He was taken Prisoner of War (POW) by the Japanese and was executed at Rabaul on 27 January 1942.