Informal portrait of Aboriginal serviceman, VX61245 Private (Pte) Claude Henry McDonald, of ...

Accession Number P01651.006
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal portrait of Aboriginal serviceman, VX61245 Private (Pte) Claude Henry McDonald, of Richmond, Vic, walking down a Melbourne street. Pte McDonald enlisted on 7 August 1941 in Newtown, Vic, and served with the 10th Australian Despatch Radar Section in New Guinea, Torakina and Bougainville. He was discharged on 9 January 1946.