Informal street portrait of QX11294 Private Henry Arthur Guy, 2/26 Battalion. Pte Guy was among a ...

Accession Number P08476.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1942
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 street portrait of QX11294 Private Henry Arthur Guy, 2/26 Battalion. Pte Guy was among a group of Australian and British prisoners of war (POW) being transported aboard the Rakuyo Maru when it was torpedoed and sunk by a US submarine, and died at sea in the South West Pacific Area on 12 September 1944.