Studio portrait of 1091 Bugler Albert Robert Dawson, 3rd Battalion of Lidcombe, NSW. A safe ...

Accession Number P08624.338
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 1091 Bugler Albert Robert Dawson, 3rd Battalion of Lidcombe, NSW. A safe maker prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Euripides (A14) on 20 October 1914. On 4 August 1915, he was killed in action at Gallipoli, Turkey, aged 25. He is buried in the Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey.