Studio portrait of 551 Lance Corporal (later Lance Sergeant) Norman Graham, 38th Battalion, of ...

Accession Number P05248.050
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Unknown
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 551 Lance Corporal (later Lance Sergeant) Norman Graham, 38th Battalion, of Bendigo, Victoria. A school teacher prior to enlistment, Graham embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Runic (A54) on 20 June 1916. On 7 June 1917, aged 24, he was killed in action at Bethlehem Farm, Messines Ridge, Belgium. He has no known grave, and is remembered with honour on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.