Studio portrait of QX5376 Corporal (Cpl) Richard Percival Soutter. A farm hand from Herberton, ...

Accession Number P10374.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made 1940-1942
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 QX5376 Corporal (Cpl) Richard Percival Soutter. A farm hand from Herberton, Qld, he embarked with 2/7 Field Company Engineers from Sydney on 14 November 1940. Cpl Soutter died of injuries sustained in an accidental mine explosion in Egypt on 12 November 1942, aged 25. He is buried in El Alamein Cemetery, Egypt.

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