Studio portrait of Second Lieutenant George Roy McGregor Dey, 10th Battalion of Clarence Park, ...

Accession Number P05413.023
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Unknown
Date made C 1916
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 Second Lieutenant George Roy McGregor Dey, 10th Battalion of Clarence Park, SA. A bank clerk prior to enlisting, he embarked from Adelaide aboard RMS Mongolia on 9 March 1916. He was killed in action near Pozieres, France on 23 August 1916, aged 25. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France