Studio portrait of SX4024 Private (Pte) James Harding Aldridge, 2/27 Battalion. Pte Aldridge ...

Accession Number P11651.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
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

Studio portrait of SX4024 Private (Pte) James Harding Aldridge, 2/27 Battalion. Pte Aldridge returned home to Australia for leave from 26 March 1942 - 3 April 1942. Whilst in Australia, he was promoted to Corporal (Cpl) on 19 June 1942. Cpl Aldridge drowned whilst a passenger in a car involved in an accident in South Australia on 20 June 1942. He was 24 years old.