Studio portrait of 1527 Private (Pte) Rubin Cheverley Congdon, 5th Battalion, of Yarraville, Vic. ...

Accession Number P05421.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made c 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Studio portrait of 1527 Private (Pte) Rubin Cheverley Congdon, 5th Battalion, of Yarraville, Vic. Pte Congdon enlisted on 7 December 1914 and embarked from Melbourne, Vic, aboard HMAT Runic on 19 February 1915. He was killed in action on 4 October 1917 in Broodseinde, Belgium. His brother, 556 Lance Corporal Keen Charles Congdon, 37th Battalion, was killed in action a few days later, on 12 October 1917 in Belgium.

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