Studio portrait of 63845 Private Clifford Vivian Morrison, 15th General Service Reinforcements of ...

Accession Number P05248.085
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Place made Australia: Victoria
Date made 1918
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 63845 Private Clifford Vivian Morrison, 15th General Service Reinforcements of Footscray, Victoria. A school teacher prior to enlisting, he embarked from Adelaide aboard HMAT Boonah (A36) on 22 October 1918. During the voyage to Perth, WA, he contracted pneumonic influenza and died in the quarantine station, Woodmans Point, WA on 15 December 1918, aged 21. He is buried in the Rockingham Cemetery, Western Australia.

Related information