Studio portrait of 5452 Private (Pte) James Wright, 2nd Australian Divisional Traffic Control ...

Accession Number P05073.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Ruskin Studio
Place made Australia: Western Australia, Perth
Date made 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 5452 Private (Pte) James Wright, 2nd Australian Divisional Traffic Control Detachment, of Lion Mill, WA, with his family before embarking for service overseas during the First World War. Pictured are Pte Wright with his wife Emily Maud and baby daughter Evelyn Maud, daughter Adelaide Evelyn, son Walter James (seated) and son Norman Ernest, standing in front of his father. Pte Wright enlisted on 20 March 1916 and embarked with 14th Reinforcements, 28th Battalion, from Fremantle aboard HMAT Militiades on 7 August 1916. He was killed in action in Belgium on 7 October 1917 aged 40 years. He was buried at the Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery, Ypres.

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