Studio portrait of Captain George Guyatt Gardiner, 13th Battalion, of Darlinghurst, NSW. A civil ...

Places	Europe: France, Picardie, Somme, Bapaume Cambrai Area, Bullecourt Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, Darlinghurst
Accession Number	P05382.004
Collection type	Photograph
Object type	Black & white - Film copy negative
Maker	Unknown
Place made	Australia: New South Wales
Date made	1915
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright	Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of Captain George Guyatt Gardiner, 13th Battalion, of Darlinghurst, NSW. A civil servant prior to enlisting on 1 November 1914, he embarked from Melbourne, Vic, aboard HMAT Ulysses on 22 December 1914. On 27 April 1915, he was wounded on Gallipoli by a gun shot wound to the ankle, and after recovering went on to serve in France. During fighting at Bullecourt he was taken prisoner on 9 April 1917. He was a prisoner of war (POW) in Karlsruhe POW camp, and later interned in Holzminden. He was repatriated to England in December 1918 and returned to Australia in 1919.