Studio portrait of 5031 Private Arthur Symonds, 19th Battalion of Parramatta, NSW. A tailor ...

Accession Number P08624.115
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Cumberland
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made 1920
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 5031 Private Arthur Symonds, 19th Battalion of Parramatta, NSW. A tailor prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard the HMAT Ajana (A31) on 5 July 1916. He died on 2 September 1917 of acute rheumatism, at the military hospital Fargo, England, aged 25. He is buried in the Durrington Cemetery, England.