P08703.017 Accession Number: P08703.017

Description

Studio portrait of VX109749 Private (Pte) Mark Holden, 2/12 Battalion. A clerk from Nathalia, Vic, in the Citizen's Military Forces (CMF), Holden enlisted on 7 October 1942. Pte Holden was killed in action in Papua on 20 January 1943 in Papua, aged 21. He is buried at Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, New Guinea. 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
P08703.017
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Photomechanical print
Date Made
1942-1943
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor I Buckley
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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