Studio portrait of 153 Warrant Officer Frank Hales Potter, 10th Machine Gun Company

Accession Number P04495.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Falk Studios
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made 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 153 Warrant Officer Frank Hales Potter, 10th Machine Gun Company, of Bairnsdale, Vic. A bank clerk, prior to his enlistment in 1915, he embarked for service overseas on troopship A11 HMAT Ascanius in May 1916. He was later promoted to the rank of lieutenant. He died of wounds on 3 November 1917 and is buried at Wimereux Communal Cemetery in France.

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