Description
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 injuries in Australia on 27 January 1942, aged 18. He is commemorated at the Fawkner Crematorium, Victoria. 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.
Details
Accession Number
P08703.020
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Photomechanical print
Credit Line
Donor I Buckley
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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