P08967.001 Accession Number: P08967.001

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Studio portrait of SX12820 Gunner (Gnr) James Jury Dadds, 2/7 Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery with his wife Nellie and their two sons Kenneth, aged 1 and Brian, aged 2. Gnr Dadds, a labourer from Magill, SA prior to enlistment, enlisted on 17 May 1941. Whilst serving in Egypt he died on 1 November 1942, aged 26, of wounds received in action and was buried in the El Alamein War Cemetery.

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Accession Number
P08967.001
Photographer
Gainsborough
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Colour - Toned black & white print
Date Made
1941
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor B Dadds
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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