Outdoor portrait of VX26903 Gunner (Gnr) Edward Daniel Horgan, 4 Anti Tank Regiment, of Finley, ...

Accession Number P08569.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Print
Maker Unknown
Date made 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

Outdoor portrait of VX26903 Gunner (Gnr) Edward Daniel Horgan, 4 Anti Tank Regiment, of Finley, NSW. A labourer prior to enlistment he embarked from Caulfield, Vic on 18 June 1940. Gnr Horgan was a prisoner of war (POW) working on the Burma Thailand railway, he died of illness on 5 July 1943, aged 25. Gnr Horgan is buried in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand.