Studio portrait of 1520 Corporal (later Sergeant) Reubin Collings, 19th Battalion of Wollongong, ...

Accession Number P08624.332
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 1520 Corporal (later Sergeant) Reubin Collings, 19th Battalion of Wollongong, NSW. A clerk prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Themistocles on 12 May 1915. On 14 November 1916, he was killed in action near Flers, France, aged 23. He is buried in the Warlencourt British Cemetery, France.