Studio portrait of VX42674 Private (Pte) Thomas James Williams, 2/29 Infantry Battalion. A road ...

Accession Number P10257.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Photograph
Maker Varloine
Place made Australia: Victoria, Shepparton
Date made 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

Studio portrait of VX42674 Private (Pte) Thomas James Williams, 2/29 Infantry Battalion. A road transport operator from Warragul, Victoria prior to enlistment on 12 July 1940, Pte Williams was later promoted to Acting Corporal and captured in Singapore. Whilst held as a prisoner of war of the Japanese in Burma, he died of illness on 2 December 1943 and was buried in the Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Burma (now Myanmar).