Studio portrait of SX16401 Private (Pte) Bryan Stanford Trigg, 2/12 Field Ambulance. A farmer ...

Accession Number P11369.014
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital file TIFF
Maker Unknown
Date made c 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 SX16401 Private (Pte) Bryan Stanford Trigg, 2/12 Field Ambulance. A farmer prior to enlisting in January 1942, Pte Trigg was one of six siblings from the Trigg family to enlist for service during the Second World War. Pte Trigg was on board Australian Hospital Ship Centaur when it was attacked and sunk off the coast of Brisbane by a Japanese submarine on 14 May 1943. 268 of the 332 people on board, including Pte Trigg, were killed. He was 29 years of age.