Hand coloured studio portrait of NX49404 Private Raymond Turner, 2/3 Motorised Ambulance Convoy ...

Accession Number P08705.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Print hand-coloured black & white
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales
Date made c 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

Hand coloured studio portrait of NX49404 Private Raymond Turner, 2/3 Motorised Ambulance Convoy (MAC), AASC. A member of the 8th Division, he served as an ambulance driver and was taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. He died of illness on 1 November 1943 in Siam (Thailand), aged 22 years.