Studio portrait of QX21908 Private (Pte) Clark Davis Ivins, 2/12th Infantry Battalion. A painter ...

Accession Number AWM2019.207.4
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker Petsky Studios
Place made Australia: Queensland, Nambour
Date made 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 QX21908 Private (Pte) Clark Davis Ivins, 2/12th Infantry Battalion. A painter prior to enlisting on 1 July 1941, he embarked from Sydney on 1 November 1941 for the Middle East. Pte Clark was in Milne Bay when he was hit by an explosive bullet from a Japanese sniper, on 1 September 1942. He was evacuated to a hospital ship and then transported back to Brisbane. He died from his wounds on 5 April 1943. He was 24 years old.