Studio portrait of VX39689 Bombardier (Bdr) Thomas Hugh Wilkinson. A clerk of Melbourne, Vic, ...

Accession Number P08703.008
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

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

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.