Informal portrait on horseback, of 2092 Driver (Dvr) Duncan McFarlane, 3rd Brigade Australian ...

Accession Number P08636.004
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital file TIFF
Maker Roberts, Alec
Place made United Kingdom: Scotland, Edinburgh
Date made c 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal portrait on horseback, of 2092 Driver (Dvr) Duncan McFarlane, 3rd Brigade Australian Field Artillery, of Clare, SA; formerly of Longnidry, Scotland. A bushman prior to enlisting on 29 August 1914, Dvr McFarlane embarked from Adelaide aboard HMAT Medic (A7) on 20 October 1914. He was accidentally killed when he fell from a train near Zagazig, Egypt, on 18 March 1916. Pte McFarlane was 27 years of age.