Studio portrait of Lieutenant William Harold Jennings, 46th Battalion of Newbridge-on-Lodden, ...

Accession Number P05248.067
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 Lieutenant William Harold Jennings, 46th Battalion of Newbridge-on-Lodden, Victoria. A civil servant prior to enlisting, he embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Ceramic (A40) on 23 November 1915 as 3792 Private Jennings, 14th Battalion. On 3 April 1918, he was killed in action near Dernancourt, France, aged 28. He is buried in the Millencourt Communal Cemetery Extension, France.