Studio portrait of VX34531 Corporal (Cpl) Charles Henry James Minto Lumsden, 2/6 Battalion. ...

Accession Number P08703.022
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Unknown
Date made 1940-1945
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 VX34531 Corporal (Cpl) Charles Henry James Minto Lumsden, 2/6 Battalion. Lumsden, a farmer from Brookside, Vic (originally from Montrose, Scotland), enlisted on 2 July 1940. He sailed for the Middle East on 5 February 1941 and served in Palestine, Greece, Syria and Ceylon before returning to Australia. In April 1945 he was posted to New Guinea. Cpl Lumsden was killed in action at Wewak on 5 August 1945, aged 25. He is buried at Lae War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea. 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.