NX119119 Private (Pte) Frank Morris Wells, 2/48 Infantry Battalion, from Milsons Point, NSW, ...

Accession Number P03543.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker McGrath, G
Place made Australia
Date made 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

NX119119 Private (Pte) Frank Morris Wells, 2/48 Infantry Battalion, from Milsons Point, NSW, walking down a street with an unidentified member of the Australian Women's Army (AWAS) while on leave from New Guinea. Pte Morris enlisted on 18 August 1942; he was killed in action on the island of Tarakan, Borneo, on 24 May 1945 and is buried in Labuan War Cemetery, Malaysia.

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