P08703.016 Accession Number: P08703.016

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Studio portrait of 418863 Pilot Officer (PO) Alexander Frederick McDonald RAAF, 1 Operational Training Unit . McDonald, an insurance clerk from Eltham, Vic, enlisted on 19 June 1942. FO McDonald was officially presumed dead on 6 July 1943, aged 20; he was lost during a flight over the Bass Strait. 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.

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Accession Number
P08703.016
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Photomechanical print
Date Made
1940-1942
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor I Buckley
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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