Studio portrait of 38512 Gunner Charles Alfred Kedge, 14th Field Artillery Brigade of Coburg, ...

Accession Number P05248.070
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Place made Australia: Victoria
Date made 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of 38512 Gunner Charles Alfred Kedge, 14th Field Artillery Brigade of Coburg, Victoria. A school teacher prior to enlisting, he embarked from Melbourne aboard SS Indarra on 26 November 1917. On 16 September 1918, he was killed in action during operations near Fricourt, Somme, France, aged 23. He is buried in the Cerisy-Gailly French National Cemetery, France.