Studio portrait of QX5704 Trooper (Tpr) Francis Herbert Whitehouse, 2/7 Cavalry Regiment, of ...

Accession Number P08713.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Toned black & white print
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Queensland
Date made 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

Studio portrait of QX5704 Trooper (Tpr) Francis Herbert Whitehouse, 2/7 Cavalry Regiment, of Laidley, Qld. A farmer prior to enlistment he embarked from Toowoomba on 27 May 1940. Tpr Whitehouse was killed in action in Papua New Guinea on 18 December 1942, aged 25. He is buried at Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery.