Outdoor group portrait of five servicemen, friends from the Collins Street Baptist Church, ...

Accession Number P10125.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made c August 1940
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 group portrait of five servicemen, friends from the Collins Street Baptist Church, Melbourne, Vic. Identified, left to right: unknown; VX38513 Gunner (Gnr) Leslie Clifton Wilkin, 3 Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery (3 LAA RAA), died of wounds 7 April 1941, Libya; VX41455 Gnr Alexander Joseph Robert Barnett, 3 LAA RAA; Fred Dixon; VX31619 Eric Thorpe (later Corporal, 2/1 Topographical Survey Company Royal Australia Engineers), died of wounds 17 January 1944, New Guinea.