Studio portrait of 4274 Private (Pte) Fritz Christian Noske, 13th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion, ...

Accession Number P05329.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made c December 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 4274 Private (Pte) Fritz Christian Noske, 13th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion, of Stawell West, Vic. A saddler prior to enlisting on 21 July 1915, he embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915 after training at Seymour Camp. On 31 March 1916 he was tranferred to the 46th Battalion. Pte Noske was wounded in France on 9 January 1917 and died of tetanus on 24 January 1917, aged 24 years.