Studio portrait of 3207 Private (Pte) Arthur Foster Pittman, 58th Battalion. A clerk from South ...

Accession Number H06556
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Studio portrait of 3207 Private (Pte) Arthur Foster Pittman, 58th Battalion. A clerk from South Yarra, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Pittman embarked with the 8th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Medic on 16 December 1916. On 14 October 1917 he died of wounds received in action, aged 22, and was buried in the Godewaersvelde British Cemetery, France.