Sergeant William Chester Povey

Place Oceania: New Guinea1
Accession Number ART21655
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 50.2 x 34.8 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pencil heightened with white on paper
Maker Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, West Sepik, Suain
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Depicts a portrait of SX5421 Sergeant William Chester Povey of Australian Army Pay Corps, attached to 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion, served in Syrian campaign, original member of 2/3 rd Australian Infantry Battalion, Suain, New Guinea.