Studio portrait of WX11955 Private (Pte) Patrick Daly Winter, 2/11 Battalion of South Belmont, ...

Accession Number P08499.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Digital file
Maker Norton-Trevaire Studios
Ruskin Studio
Unknown
Place made Australia: Western Australia, Perth, Australia: Western Australia, Perth
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 WX11955 Private (Pte) Patrick Daly Winter, 2/11 Battalion of South Belmont, WA; who was born in Ceylon. Pte Winter enlisted in April 1941 and trained in Northern Queensland for eventual deployment in New Guinea. The 2/11 landed at Aitape, New Guinea, on 13 November 1944. Pte Winter was killed in action near Wewak, New Guinea on 15 May 1945. He was 24 years of age. Pte Winter's elder brother WX32775 Corporal Richard Sextus Daly Winter was killed in action at Tarakan, Borneo, on 3 May 1945.