Studio portrait of 31340 Gunner (later Private) William James Bush 2nd Field Artillery Brigade ...

Accession Number P05248.013
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Place made Australia: Victoria
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 31340 Gunner (later Private) William James Bush 2nd Field Artillery Brigade (later 2nd Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery) of Kangaroo Flat via Bendigo, Victoria. A school teacher prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard RMS Orontes on 23 December 1916. On 4 May 1918, he was wounded in action on the front line at Strazeele, France and died of his wounds in the 15th Casualty Clearing Station, Ebblinghem, France on 5 May 1918, aged 23. He is buried in the Ebblinghem Military Cemetery, France.