Studio portrait of 2907 Corporal (Cpl) William Charles Swan, 49th Battalion, of Albion, Qld. A ...

Accession Number P05632.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Toned black & white print
Maker Meade, Cecil
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 2907 Corporal (Cpl) William Charles Swan, 49th Battalion, of Albion, Qld. A clerk prior to enlisting on 10 August 1915, he embarked from Sydney, NSW, aborad HMAT Ayrshire on 1 September 1915. He died, aged 21, on 24 April 1918 of wounds received at Amiens, France, and is buried in St Pierre Cemetery, Amiens.