| Accession Number | P08703.024 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Black & white - Photomechanical print |
| Maker |
Unknown |
| Date made | 1942-1944 |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
|
Studio portrait of 418591 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Ronald Vivian Tibballs, 30 Squadron RAAF. ...
Description
Studio portrait of 418591 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Ronald Vivian Tibballs, 30 Squadron RAAF. Tibballs, a clerk of Wonthaggi, Vic, enlisted on 23 May 1942. Flt Sgt Tibballs was killed on operations in New Guinea on 21 February 1944, aged 21. He has no known grave and is commemoriated at the Rabual Memorial, Rabual 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.