Studio portrait of 1392 Private Stewart Parnell Vagg, 3rd Battalion of Booligal, NSW. A bank ...

Accession Number P05413.081
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Unknown
Date made circ 1914
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 1392 Private Stewart Parnell Vagg, 3rd Battalion of Booligal, NSW. A bank clerk prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Euripides (A14) on 20 October 1914. He was wounded in action at Gallipoli, Turkey and on 30 April 1915, he died at sea aboard SS Derflinger. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey.