Accession Number | P02721.004 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white, Portrait |
Physical description | Black & white, Portrait |
Date made | c 1940 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Studio portrait of QX6542 Captain Colin William Clerk Dossetor. Capt Dossetor had served with the ...
Description
Studio portrait of QX6542 Captain Colin William Clerk Dossetor. Capt Dossetor had served with the 6th Division, Royal Australian Engineers in the Middle East. Later as a captain with 1st Australian Paratroop Battalion he was accidentally killed on 24 August 1943 when making an experimental parachute jump and landed in the Cataract Dam, NSW and drowned.