Studio portrait of Second Lieutenant James Cant, 19th Battalion, of Newcastle, NSW. A mining ...

Place Europe: France
Accession Number P05301.089
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 Second Lieutenant James Cant, 19th Battalion, of Newcastle, NSW. A mining surveyor prior to enlisting on 1 October 1915, he embarked from Sydney, NSW, aboard HMAT Suevic on 11 November 1916. He was killed in action on 3 May 1917, in France, aged 34.