Studio portrait of 2479 Private (Pte) Reginald Norman Frederick Woods, 5th Battalion of Brighton, ...

Accession Number P05248.145
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Place made Australia: Victoria
Date made 1915
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 2479 Private (Pte) Reginald Norman Frederick Woods, 5th Battalion of Brighton, Victoria. A school teacher prior to enlisting, he embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Demosthenes (A64) on 16 July 1915. On 28 November 1915, he was killed in action on the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, aged 22. Pte Woods is buried in the Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey.