Studio portrait of SX11479 Raymond Horace Coker (1900-1945). Coker enlisted in the 1st AIF on 17 ...

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Accession Number P02143.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: South Australia
Date made 1940
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 SX11479 Raymond Horace Coker (1900-1945). Coker enlisted in the 1st AIF on 17 February 1917 at the age of sixteen, saying he was eighteen and one quarter years. In World War 1 he served in France with the 2nd LROC (Light Railway Operating Company). He re-enlisted in the 2nd AIF on 20 July 1940 at the age of forty years and served with the 4th Motor Transport Reserve, 8th Division. He was taken prisoner by the Japanese in Singapore on 15 February 1942. He died as a prisoner of war (POW) in Sandakan, Borneo, on 7 May 1945.