Studio portrait of 4438 Private Archibald White Houston, 17th Battalion, of Campsie, NSW. Son of ...

Accession Number P05301.148
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made c 1916
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 4438 Private Archibald White Houston, 17th Battalion, of Campsie, NSW. Son of Margaret Houston, of Enmore, NSW, and Eugene Macintyre Houston. A clerk prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Nestor (A71) on 9 April 1916. He died of pneumonia on 14 January 1917 in Rouen, France, aged 28. He is buried in St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France.