Outdoor portrait of VX65556 Private (Pte) Alfred Walton Salkeld, 2/26 Battalion, of Hopetown, ...

Accession Number P08797.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Victoria
Date made 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Outdoor portrait of VX65556 Private (Pte) Alfred Walton Salkeld, 2/26 Battalion, of Hopetown, Vic. He enlisted from Royal Park on 3 November 1941. Pte Salkeld was taken Prisoner of War and died of illness in Burma on 5 September 1943. He is buried at the Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Myanmar.