Studio portrait of WX2945 Corporal (Cpl) Peter Budge Dungey and WX3636 Cpl Alan Campbell Haddy, ...

Accession Number P11726.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Wera Photo Studio
Place made British Mandate of Palestine: Tel Aviv
Date made c 1941
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 WX2945 Corporal (Cpl) Peter Budge Dungey and WX3636 Cpl Alan Campbell Haddy, both of 2/16 Battalion. With the rank of Acting Sergeant, Dungey was killed in action on 7 July 1941 when he volunteered to cut barbed-wire defences with two other members of his unit at the Damour River, Syria. Cpl Haddy was mentioned in despatches in December 1941. Later promoted to Lieutenant (Lt), he was killed in action in Papua New Guinea on 7 December 1942. Lt Haddy was posthumously mentioned in despatches on 23 December 1943.