Studio portrait of 1228 Private Charles Frederick Palmer, 15th Battalion. A miner of Branxholm, ...

Accession Number P05430.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker Darge Photographic Company
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made c December 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 1228 Private Charles Frederick Palmer, 15th Battalion. A miner of Branxholm, Tas, he enlisted on 1 October 1914 and sailed with H Company aboard HMAT Ceramic on 22 December 1914. He was killed in action, aged 21, on 25 August 1915 on the Gallipoli Peninsula and is buried at Embarkation Pier Cemetery, Turkey.