Studio portrait of 4175 Corporal Albert Alexander Currie, 59th Battalion, of Tocumwal, NSW. A ...

Place Europe: France, Picardie, Somme
Accession Number P05301.070
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Sydney Mail
Place made Australia: New South Wales
Date made c 1915
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 4175 Corporal Albert Alexander Currie, 59th Battalion, of Tocumwal, NSW. A hairdresser prior to enlisting on 21 July 1915, he embarked from Melbourne, NSW, aboard HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. He was killed in action on 12 December 1916 at Geudecourt Le Transloy in the Somme, France, aged 23.