Original grave of NX15829 Private (Pte) Douglas Patrick Naughton, 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion. A ...

Accession Number P11401.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made North Africa: Western Desert, Western Desert (Egypt), El Alamein Area, El Alamein
Date made 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Original grave of NX15829 Private (Pte) Douglas Patrick Naughton, 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion. A labourer prior to enlisting on 3 April 1940, Pte Naughton embarked for overseas service in December 1940. He was killed in action on 11 July 1942, aged 24 years. Pte Naughton was reinterred in El Alamein War Cemetary in 1945.

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