Studio portrait of 4580 Private Alexander Smith, 2nd Battalion, of Balmain, NSW. A wireworker ...

Place Europe: France, Picardie, Somme, Albert Bapaume Area, Gueudecourt
Accession Number P05301.082
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Sydney Mail
Place made Australia: New South Wales
Date made c 1915
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 4580 Private Alexander Smith, 2nd Battalion, of Balmain, NSW. A wireworker prior to enlisting on 26 August 1915, he embarked from Sydney, NSW, aboard HMAT Osterley on 15 January 1916. He was killed in action on 28 December 1916 in Gueudecourt, France, aged 23.