Collection relating to the service of NX34734 Reginald William James Newton

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Accession Number P00102.041
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Lawson
Date made 2 February 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

Four members of the 2/19th Battalion watch from the windows of a train as it departs the railway station en route from Bathurst to Sydney where they are to embark onboard HMT Queen Mary for Malaya. Identified are: NX56107 Private (Pte) William Burston Graham ‘Graham’ Bartley (later held as a POW); NX35152 Pte Harrie Gibbons (discharged 8 September 1941); NX55915 Pte Gilbert Palmer Mant (discharged 3 September 1941); NX57296 Pte John William ‘Shorty’ Bridge (later held as a POW).