The original grave and early grave marker of NX88832 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Trevor Cyril Walter ...

Place Asia: Borneo, Tarakan
Accession Number P09624.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Borneo: Tarakan
Date made 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

The original grave and early grave marker of NX88832 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Trevor Cyril Walter Winter, 2/3 Australian Pioneer Battalion. A railway porter from Old Guildford, NSW, L Cpl Winter enlisted on 16 February 1942. He was killed in action in Tarakan, Borneo, on 12 May 1945 during the same action that Cpl John Bernard Mackey VC was killed and posthumously received his Victoria Cross. L Cpl Winter was aged 24.