| Place | Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, Ingleburn |
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| Accession Number | P00102.050 |
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Black & white - Print silver gelatin |
| Place made | Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Ingleburn |
| Date made | September 1940 |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Collection relating to the service of NX34734 Reginald William James Newton
Description
An informal group portrait of some members of Transport Platoon, 2/19th Battalion. The Battalion was later captured by the Japanese in the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 and most of the men were either killed in action (KIA) or held as prisoners of war (POW). Identified from left to right, back row: NX35661 Private (Pte) Herbert ‘Bert’ Roberts (died as a POW at sea in the South West Pacific on 26 June 1944); Jim O'Connor; NX52032 Pte Colin Charles Lowe (POW); NX52301 Frederick Thomas Law (died of illness as a POW in Taiwan on 8 April 1943); : NX56199 Corporal (Cpl) Maurie David Kimbell (later Sergeant); NX36024 Lance Corporal Jonathan ‘Jack’ Elmy (KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942).
Second row: Choom Donnelly, probably NX7301 Corporal John Joseph Donnelly (KIA in Malaya on 8 February 1942); NX55452 Pte Lewis Vivian ‘Viv’ Ferguson (POW); NX35752 Pte Norman Charles Flack (POW); and NX55451 Gunner Daniel Leslie McLeod (discharged 16 October 1942).
Front row: Bert Brown; and NGX152 Pte Otto James Martin Hirschel (POW). Note the camera held by one of the privates in the front row.