Hand coloured studio portrait of 3640 Private (Pte) Frederick James Williams, 8th Reinforcements, ...

Accession Number P04584.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Print hand coloured black & white
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

Hand coloured studio portrait of 3640 Private (Pte) Frederick James Williams, 8th Reinforcements, 21st Battalion of Long Gully, Victoria. Pte Williams enlisted on 7 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. He was killed in action on 12 December 1917 in Belgium and is buried at Somer Farm Cemetery.