Studio portrait of 2131 Private (later Corporal (Cpl)) Charles Oakley Erwood, 11th Battalion and ...

Accession Number P09762.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Digital file
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Western Australia
Date made 1915
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 2131 Private (later Corporal (Cpl)) Charles Oakley Erwood, 11th Battalion and his nieces Olive, Elsie and Emily (front), of Kerang, Vic. A contractor prior to enlistment, he embarked from Fremantle, WA, with the 6th Reinforcements aboard HMAT Geelong (A2) on 6 June 1915. Cpl Erwood died of wounds on 11 August 1918. He was 38 years of age.