Wedding portrait of 6028 Acting Sergeant (A/Sgt) John Laurence Bubb, 17th Reinforcements, 21st ...

Accession Number P04518.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Tesla Studios
Place made Australia: New South Wales
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

Wedding portrait of 6028 Acting Sergeant (A/Sgt) John Laurence Bubb, 17th Reinforcements, 21st Battalion, of Beechwood, NSW, and his wife Mary Letitia Bubb (nee Prowse) who married at Adelong, NSW, in 1915. A/Sgt Bubb enlisted on 8 August 1915 and embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Afric on 3 November 1916. He was later killed in action at Passchendaele on 4 October 1917, aged twenty five.