Studio portrait of 504 Private (later Lance Corporal) John Charles Campbell, 19th Battalion of ...

Accession Number P08624.461
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 504 Private (later Lance Corporal) John Charles Campbell, 19th Battalion of Fairfield, NSW. A carter prior to enlisting, he embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Ceramic (A40) on 25 June 1915. He was killed in action on 27 February 1917 at Le Sars, Somme, France, aged 22. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.