Studio portrait of 3792 Private (later Corporal) Charles Elwin Hyland 4th Battalion (later 14th ...

Accession Number P08624.395
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 3792 Private (later Corporal) Charles Elwin Hyland 4th Battalion (later 14th Field Company Australian Engineers) of Gundagai, NSW. A bridge carpenter prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Medic (A7) on 30 December 1915 Cpl Hyland died of pneumonia,on 10 February 1919, at the 5th Casualty Clearing Station, France, aged 24. He is buried in the Maubeuge (Sous-le-Bois) Cemetery, France.