Informal outdoor group portrait of 387016 (446735, V158149, VX135431) Sergeant (Sgt) Norman ...

Accession Number P09982.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Leicagraph Pty Ltd
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made 1946
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal outdoor group portrait of 387016 (446735, V158149, VX135431) Sergeant (Sgt) Norman Strange MM (right) and a group of women on the dock at Port Melbourne before boarding HMAS Shropshire for the Victory march in England. Sgt Strange enlisted on 17 April 1939 at Ballarat and served with the 8 Battalion and was awarded the Military Medal. He survived the war and was discharged on 13 September 1946