The grave of SX7399 Acting Corporal (A/Cpl) Ray Beresford Lovelock, 2/48 Battalion, of Plympton, ...

Accession Number P07961.009
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made North Africa: Western Desert, Western Desert (Egypt), El Alamein Area, El Alamein
Date made c 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

The grave of SX7399 Acting Corporal (A/Cpl) Ray Beresford Lovelock, 2/48 Battalion, of Plympton, SA. A/Cpl Lovelock was a farm hand and railway labourer, living in Karoonda SA, on enlistment on 1 July 1940. He was killed in action on 22 July 1942 in Egypt, at the age of 30. He is buried in El Alamein War Cemetery.