Informal portrait of 137 Second Corporal (2Cpl) Owen Kevin Hughes, 8th Field Company Engineers, ...

Accession Number P04784.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1914
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal portrait of 137 Second Corporal (2Cpl) Owen Kevin Hughes, 8th Field Company Engineers, of West Footscray, Vic, in the trenches at Gallipoli. The man on the left is unidentified. Hughes was an electrician and plumber prior to enlisting on 21 August 1914, and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Orvieto on 21 October 1914 with the 2nd Field Company Engineers. He returned to Australia on 5 April 1919. This is a rare example of an Australian serviceman wearing his breeches loose with no puttees.

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