Accession Number | P08703.008 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Photomechanical print |
Maker |
Unknown |
Date made | 1941-1944 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Studio portrait of VX39689 Bombardier (Bdr) Thomas Hugh Wilkinson. A clerk of Melbourne, Vic, ...
Studio portrait of VX39689 Bombardier (Bdr) Thomas Hugh Wilkinson. A clerk of Melbourne, Vic, Wilkinson enlisted on 10 February 1941 with the 4 Anti Tank Regiment, RAA. He was promoted to Bdr on 11 April 1941 and embarked for Singapore on 23 June 1941. Bdr Wilkinson was reported missing on 16 February 1942. On 15 May 1943 he was reported as a prisoner of war (POW) working on the Burma Thailand railway. He died of illness, aged 25, on 20 March 1944 in Thailand. He is buried at the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand. This image is taken from "The Ivanarian", a magazine of the Ivanhoe Grammar School in Melbourne, Vic. During the Second World War the school honoured "old boys" who had enlisted and died by including a short biographical piece and in many cases a portrait.