Studio portrait of 232 Driver Charles Allen, 1st Field Artillery Brigade

Accession Number P05134.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Toned black & white print
Maker Sweetland, E
Place made United Kingdom: England, Buckinghamshire, High Wycombe
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

Studio portrait of 232 Driver (Dvr) Charles Allen, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, of Alexandria, NSW. A plumber prior to enlisting in August 1914, Dvr Allen embarked from Sydney, with the 2nd Battery, a board HMAT Argyllshire (A8) on 18 October 1914. After further training and service in Egypt and Suez, he arrived in France for service on the Western Front on 27 March 1916. Dvr Allen was killed in action at Flers, France on 12 November 1916. He was 22 years of age.