Studio portrait of 4895 Driver Robert Thomas Straughair, 16th Battalion

Accession Number P03990.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Nixon, Charles Millington
Place made Australia: Western Australia, Fremantle, Australia: Western Australia, Fremantle
Date made c 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 4895 Driver (Dvr) Robert Thomas Straughair, 16th Battalion. Dvr Straughair of Fremantle, WA, enlisted on 29 November 1915 and died of disease in Abbeville, France on 21 October 1918, aged 23 years. He is buried in the Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension. His brother, 3117 Private (Pte) William John Straughair of the 51st Battalion, enlisted on 18 June the same year and returned to Australia on 13 February 1917 (see P03990.002).

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