Informal portrait of WX10734 Private (Pte) Joseph William (Bill) Woodley, 2/3rd Machine Gun ...

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Accession Number P03169.007
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made 1941 - 1942
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 WX10734 Private (Pte) Joseph William (Bill) Woodley, 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion. Pte Woodley enlisted on 15 January 1941 and served in the Middle East and Batavia. He was reported missing in action in Java on 7 March 1942 and died of illness as a prisoner of war (POW) on 12 March 1944. He is buried in the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery in Thailand.