Accession Number | P09500.001 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Print silver gelatin |
Maker |
Unknown |
Place made | Australia |
Date made | c 1967 |
Conflict |
Vietnam, 1962-1975 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright unknown |
Pre-enlistment portrait of 215349 Lieutenant (Lt) Robert Graham Birse. Birse, from Sydney, NSW, ...
Description
Pre-enlistment portrait of 215349 Lieutenant (Lt) Robert Graham Birse. Birse, from Sydney, NSW, enlisted with rank of Lieutenant on 28 May 1967. He commenced his service in Vietnam with the 4th Field Regiment and was killed on 10 December 1967, aged 23. Lt Birse was buried at the Terendak Cemetery, Malaysia, but was repatriated in 2016, and it now buried at Palmdale Lawn Cemetary and Memorial Park on the NSW Central Coast.