Studio portrait of 3015 Sapper (Spr) Edward Clayfield, 5th Field Company Engineers. An architect ...

Accession Number P05631.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Toned black & white print
Maker Broothorn Studios
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made 25 July 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 3015 Sapper (Spr) Edward Clayfield, 5th Field Company Engineers. An architect from Trafalgar, Vic prior to enlistment, Spr Clayfield embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Ceramic on 24 November 1915. On 25 July 1916 he was killed in action at Pozieres, France, aged 33, and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.