Accession Number | P03796.032 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | |
Maker |
Unknown |
Place made | Australia, Australia: New South Wales |
Date made | 1916 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Memorial card portrait of 1046 Private (Pte) Roy Victor Dransfield, 2nd Battalion. A seedsman of ...
Description
Memorial card portrait of 1046 Private (Pte) Roy Victor Dransfield, 2nd Battalion. A seedsman of West Maitland, NSW, prior to enlistment, Pte Dransfield embarked with A Company from Sydney on HMAT Suffolk on 18 October 1914. On 25 July 1916 he was killed in action near Pozieres, France and buried close by. As his grave could not be located after the Armistice, he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.