Informal portrait, taken prior to enlistment, of N185615 Private (Pte) Arthur Louis Stratton, 2/5 ...

Accession Number P07610.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
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

Informal portrait, taken prior to enlistment, of N185615 Private (Pte) Arthur Louis Stratton, 2/5 Battalion, of Annandale, NSW (right) with two unidentified friends. Pte Stratton was a press hand prior to enlisting at Leichhardt, NSW, on 16 October 1941. He was killed in action in New Guinea on 17 July 1943 at the age of 21.