Portrait of Warrant Officer Second Class (WO2) Rayene (Ray) Stewart Simpson, forty three, of ...

Accession Number LES/69/0568/VN
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker L'Estrange, Brian Edwin
Place made Vietnam: South Vietnam, Saigon
Date made August 1969
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Portrait of Warrant Officer Second Class (WO2) Rayene (Ray) Stewart Simpson, forty three, of Redfern, NSW, a member of the Australian Army Training Team in Vietnam (AATTV). He is smiling after being told he is the third member of the AATTV to win the Commonwealth's highest decoration, the Victoria Cross (VC), for gallantry.