Hand-coloured studio portrait of Q28988 Private (Pte) Gordon Benjamin Young, 49th Battalion AMF ...

Accession Number P10195.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Print hand-coloured black & white
Maker Unknown
Date made c 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

Hand-coloured studio portrait of Q28988 Private (Pte) Gordon Benjamin Young, 49th Battalion AMF (Stanley Regiment). A farm labourer from Coomera, Qld, Pte Young enlisted on 2 April 1941. He was killed in action on 7 December 1942 during the 49th Battalion attack on the Japanese defences at Sanananda Road, Papua New Guinea. He is buried in the Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea.