Accession Number | P05301.121 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Photomechanical print |
Maker |
Unknown |
Place made | Australia: New South Wales, Australia: New South Wales |
Date made | c 1915 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Studio portrait of 3830 Private Ernest Oswald Davis, 18th Battalion, of Tamworth, NSW. Husband ...
Description
Studio portrait of 3830 Private Ernest Oswald Davis, 18th Battalion, of Tamworth, NSW. Husband of Violet Jane Davis of West Tamworth, NSW. A labourer prior to enlisting he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Runic (A54) on 25 June 1916. He was killed in action on 5 August 1916 in France, aged 30. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.