A number of desert graves covered in white rocks. Most of the graves are simply marked with a ...

Accession Number P05525.007
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made North Africa: Western Desert, Western Desert (Egypt), El Alamein Area, El Alamein
Date made c 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A number of desert graves covered in white rocks. Most of the graves are simply marked with a number, however, the grave in the foreground is of SX8183 Lance Sergeant (LSgt) Prime William Willmott, 2/48th Battalion, of Adelaide, SA. He enlisted on 6 July 1940 and was killed in action in Egypt, on 15 July 1942, aged 22.