Studio portrait of 1999 Private (Pte) John William Chapman, 30th Battalion, originally of Kent, ...

Accession Number P04166.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
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 1999 Private (Pte) John William Chapman, 30th Battalion, originally of Kent, England. Pte Chapman immigrated to Australia at the age of 15, and enlisted on 9 August 1915 in Mannus, NSW. He died of illness at Fargo Military Hospital, Salisbury Plain, on 22 June 1918, aged 22.