Studio portrait of VX51487 Private (Pte) Les Lionel Webster, his wife Rita and their children, ...

Accession Number P07838.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital file TIFF
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Victoria
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 VX51487 Private (Pte) Les Lionel Webster, his wife Rita and their children, Shirley and John taken soon after his enlistment on 17 Mar 1941. Pte Webster served with the 2/29 Battalion and died of illness while a Prisoner of War of the Japanese on the 10th July 1943. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.

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