Studio portrait of 2349 Private Walter Rudolph Christianson, 20th Battalion, of Balmain, NSW. A ...

Place Europe: France
Accession Number P05301.053
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Sydney Mail
Place made Australia: New South Wales
Date made c 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 2349 Private Walter Rudolph Christianson, 20th Battalion, of Balmain, NSW. A fitter's assistant at the government tramways prior to enlisting on 31 July 1915, he embarked from Sydney, NSW, aboard HMAT Ballarat on 6 September 1915. He was killed in action in France on 26 July 1916, aged 22.