Accession Number | P05248.123 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Photomechanical print |
Place made | Australia: Victoria |
Date made | 1914 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Studio portrait of 177 Sergeant (Sgt) Ernest Alfred Smith, 7th Battalion of Coburg, Victoria. A ...
Description
Studio portrait of 177 Sergeant (Sgt) Ernest Alfred Smith, 7th Battalion of Coburg, Victoria. A clerk prior to enlisting, he embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Hororata (A20) on 19 October 1914. On 25 April 1915, he was killed in action on the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, aged 46. Sgt Smith has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey.