Studio portrait of 12775 Private John Walsh, Stretcher Bearer, 11th Field Ambulance. A postal ...

Accession Number P05212.005
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker William H Hammer & Co
Place made Australia: South Australia, Adelaide
Date made c 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 12775 Private John Walsh, Stretcher Bearer, 11th Field Ambulance. A postal assistant of Wallaroo, SA, he embarked with the unit from Adelaide in May 1916. At the end of the war he attended officer training and was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant with the 44th Battalion, a brief appointment which was terminated on his return to Australia in 1919 when he was discharged.