Studio portrait of 3139 Private (Pte) James (Barney) Cowan, 48th Battalion, of Fremantle, WA. A ...

Accession Number P08210.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital file TIFF
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 3139 Private (Pte) James (Barney) Cowan, 48th Battalion, of Fremantle, WA. A clerk prior to enlisting in November 1916 Pte Cowan embarked from Fremantle with the 8th Reinforcements on board HMAT Berrima (A35) on 23 December 1916. On 24 November 1917 he died in Birmingham General Hospital of wounds received in action at Passchendaele, Belgium. He was 30 years of age. This is one of a collection of eight photographs relating to the Caledonian Soccer Club, Fremantle, WA.