Studio portrait of the Australian Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Co-ordination, Mr John ...

Accession Number 003870
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Australia
Date made c October 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 the Australian Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Co-ordination, Mr John Curtin. John Curtin died in Canberra on 6 July 1945, after a few weeks' illness. He assumed office in October 1941 and it was acknowledged that the strain of wartime anxiety and administrations had hastened his death.

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