Studio portrait of 2745 Private Arthur Noel Russell Blayney, 58th Battalion of Warrnambool, ...

Accession Number P05413.010
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1916
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 2745 Private Arthur Noel Russell Blayney, 58th Battalion of Warrnambool, Victoria. A bank clerk prior to enlistment, he embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Nestor (A71) on 2 October 1916. He was killed in action at Polygon Wood, Belgium on 26 September 1917, aged 19. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.