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Studio portrait of VX39689 Bombardier (Bdr) Thomas Hugh Wilkinson. A clerk of Melbourne, Vic, Wilkinson enlisted on 10 February 1941 with the 4 Anti Tank Regiment, RAA. He was promoted to Bdr on 11 April 1941 and embarked for Singapore on 23 June 1941. Bdr Wilkinson was reported missing on 16 February 1942. On 15 May 1943 he was reported as a prisoner of war (POW) working on the Burma Thailand railway. He died of illness, aged 25, on 20 March 1944 in Thailand. He is buried at the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand. This image is taken from "The Ivanarian", a magazine of the Ivanhoe Grammar School in Melbourne, Vic. During the Second World War the school honoured "old boys" who had enlisted and died by including a short biographical piece and in many cases a portrait.
Studio portrait of VX29801 Bombardier (Bdr) Francis Cedric (Frank) Brock, 2/4 Field Regiment. A clerk from Ivanhoe, Vic, Brock enlisted on 28 June 1940. He was wounded in action in July 1941. On 10 Ju
Studio portrait of 409289 Flying Officer (FO) Noel George Burnell, 23 Squadron RAAF. A clerk of Berri, SA, Burnell enlisted on 15 August 1941. FO Burnell was killed in New Guinea whilst on operations
Studio portrait of 401410 Flying Officer (FO) Robert Ernest Berkley RAAF, 38 Squadron RAF. FO Berkley enlisted on 3 February 1941 and was killed on operations on 6 January 1944 in the Middle East, age
Studio portrait of V66026 Private (Pte) Harold James Barry, 5 Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps. A junior municipal clerk from Northcote, Vic, Barry enlisted on 27 May 1941. Pte Barry died of injurie
Studio portrait of 401044 Sergeant (Sgt) Francis Charles (Frank) Marriner, 6 Squadron RAAF. Marriner enlisted on 8 December 1940. Sgt Marriner was killed on 19 February 1942 in New Guinea whilst on op
Studio portrait of 401712 Pilot Officer (PO) Kenneth Septimus McColl, RAAF, 408 Squadron, RCAF. McColl of Westgarth, Vic, enlisted on 28 March 1941. He embarked from Melbourne on 13 June 1941 and was
