Accession Number | P05413.024 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Photomechanical print |
Maker |
Unknown |
Date made | c 1915 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Studio portrait of 3836 Acting Sergeant (later Sergeant) Charles Shillaber Evans, 18th Battalion ...
Description
Studio portrait of 3836 Acting Sergeant (later Sergeant) Charles Shillaber Evans, 18th Battalion of Ashfield, NSW. A bank clerk prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Runic (A54) on 20 January 1916. He was killed in action at Bullecourt, France on 3 May 1917, aged 22. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France