Group portrait of members of 2/21 Battalion Band. Identified left to right: Back Row: VX37300 ...

Accession Number P08654.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Place made Australia: Victoria, Bonegilla
Date made 2 March 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

Group portrait of members of 2/21 Battalion Band.
Identified left to right:
Back Row:
VX37300 Acting Corporal (A/Cpl) John Baptist Valli, POW Laha camp Ambon, executed 20 Feb 1942; VX34252 Private (Pte) John Henry Skeggs, POW Ambon and Hainan Island, discharged 13 Dec 1945; VX27095 Pte Leslie Lamb, POW Laha camp Ambon, executed 15 Feb 1942; VX47793 Pte Roy Santilla Hynes, POW Ambon and Hainan Island, accidental death 8 Apr 1944; VX 40228 Pte Arthur Alfred Hawking, POW Ambon and Hainan Island, presumed to have died 1 May 1945; VX43008 Pte Alan Thomas Murnane, POW Ambon and Hainan Island, discharged 13 Nov 1945; VX43049 Acting Lance Sergeant (L Sgt) Roger Crawford Sutton Fyfe, POW Ambon and Hainan Island, died of illness 13 Sep 1943; VX 23312 A/Cpl William Cunningham Guthrie, later 2/40 Battalion, killed in action on Timor, 22 Feb 1942.
Third Row:
VX40442 A/Cpl Clement William Morrison, POW Laha camp Ambon, presumed to have died 20 Feb 1942; VX37155 Pte Neil Blythe Bromley, POW Laha camp Ambon, presumed to have died 20 Feb 1942; VX46656 Pte George Doll POW Laha camp Ambon, presumed to have died 20 Feb 1942; VX44919 Pte Albert Norman Haines, POW Ambon and Hainan Island, presumed to have died 1 May 1945; VX24286 Cpl (later Sgt) William David Harries, POW Ambon and Hainan Island, discharged 13 Jun 1946; VX31233 Pte Victor John Findlay, POW Ambon and Hainan Island, discharged 11 Dec 1945; VX24928 Pte Robert George Adams, POW Ambon and Hainan Island, presumed to have died 20 Feb 1942; VX46984 Pte George Shadwell Joy, POW Ambon and Hainan Island, discharged 28 Feb 1946.

Second Row:
VX47579 Pte William John Cook, POW Ambon and Hainan Island, discharged 26 Nov 1945; VX37644 Pte Charles Arthur Woodward, POW Ambon and Hainan Island, discharged 21 Aug 1946; VX37156 Pte Harold Robert Martin, POW Ambon and Hainan Island, discharged 19 Nov 1945; VX37154 Edward Richard Walter Smith, POW Ambon and Hainan Island, died of illness 22 Oct 1943; VX46875 (later V295414) Sgt John Phillip Stranger, (Bandmaster), discharged 19 Sep 1941; VX36254 Pte Albert Edward Vivash, POW Ambon and Hainan Island, presumed to have died 20 Feb 1942; VX45436 Pte Frederick Aubrey Hillier, POW Ambon and Hainan Island, discharged 13 Dec 1945; VX42320 Pte Reginald Hugh Stanley Sinclair, POW Ambon and Hainan Island, discharged 20 Dec 1945.

Front Row:
VX25325 Pte Courtney Thomas Harrison, POW Ambon and Hainan Island, discharged 24 Jan 1946; VX32093 Pte Edward William Hogan, POW Ambon and Hainan Island, presumed to have died 20 Feb 1942; VX32005 Pte George Allan Williams, POW Ambon, died of illness 22 Jun 1945; VX40359 Pte George Herbert Kissick, POW Ambon and Hainan Island, discharged 2 Dec 1946.