Studio portrait of 3487A Private (Pte) Cyril John Bourne, 9th Reinforcements, 53rd Battalion, of ...

Accession Number P05024.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
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 3487A Private (Pte) Cyril John Bourne, 9th Reinforcements, 53rd Battalion, of Granville, NSW. A carpenter prior to enlisting on 20 November 1916, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Anchises on 24 January 1917. Pte Bourne received a shrapnel wound to the head and died on 29 September 1917 in Belgium, aged 23 years.

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