Outdoor portrait of brothers VX25030 Private (Pte) Wilfred John Williams (left) and VX38278 Pte ...

Accession Number P08642.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made c August 1940
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 brothers VX25030 Private (Pte) Wilfred John Williams (left) and VX38278 Pte Ormond Leslie Williams, both of the 21st Battalion. Pte Wilfred Williams died of illness on Ambon on 24 April 1944 as prisoner of war (POW) of the Japanese and Pte Ormond Williams also died of illness at Ambon on 16 June 1945. The man in the centre is unidentified.