Studio portrait of QX6542 Captain Colin William Clerk Dossetor. Capt Dossetor had served with the ...

Accession Number P02721.004
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

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

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.

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