Studio portrait of Captain Duncan Victor Mulholland, 1st Battalion, Australian Machine Gun Corps, ...

Accession Number P05413.067
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Unknown
Date made circ 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 Captain Duncan Victor Mulholland, 1st Battalion, Australian Machine Gun Corps, of Ashfield, NSW. A bank accountant prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Suevic (A29) on 13 June 1915, as 655 Corporal Mulholland, 12th Light Horse Regiment, Machine Gun Section. On 31 May 1918, aged 26, he was wounded in action at Strazeele, France and died of his wounds later that day at the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance Station, France. He is buried in the Ebblinghem Military Cemetery, France.