Studio portrait of 3011 Private (Pte) Charles Bogie Young (later MM), 51st Battalion, with his ...

Accession Number P04399.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
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 3011 Private (Pte) Charles Bogie Young (later MM), 51st Battalion, with his wife, Elizabeth and son, John. Pte Young, of Bolgart, WA (originally of Newport, Scotland), enlisted on 7 August 1916 and embarked from Fremantle aboard HMAT Argyllshire on 9 November 1916. He was killed in action on 24 April 1918 and memorialised at Villers-Bretonneux, France.