Informal portrait of two Aboriginal servicemen, NX43504 Private (Pte) George Leonard and NX43500 ...

Place Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney
Accession Number 010375
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made 2 November 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

Informal portrait of two Aboriginal servicemen, NX43504 Private (Pte) George Leonard and NX43500 Pte Harold West, 14th Reinforcements to the 2/1st Battalion, embarking at Sydney. Pte Leonard, of Goodooga, enlisted on 23 August 1941 and was killed in action in Papua on 23 October 1942, aged 32. Pte West, of Goodooga, enlisted on 23 August 1941 and died of illness in New Guinea on 26 November 1942, aged 31.