Grave of QX17093 Lieutenant (Lt) Norman Percival Meggitt, 9th Division Ammunition Company, of ...

Accession Number P08802.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made North Africa: Libya, Cyrenaica, Tobruk Area, Tobruk
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

Grave of QX17093 Lieutenant (Lt) Norman Percival Meggitt, 9th Division Ammunition Company, of Ashgrove, Qld. A commercial traveller prior to enlistment, Lt Meggitt was commissioned after completing the Potential Officers Course on 28 January 1941. He embarked from Sydney on 9 April 1941, and was killed in action in Egypt on 5 July 1941. He was buried at Tobruk War Cemetery. Image from the collection of NX11895 Donald Cooper.