Studio portrait of 727 Private (Pte) William Augustus (Gus) Orchard, 10th Company, Machine Gun ...

Accession Number P05554.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Tasmania
Date made c 1916
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 727 Private (Pte) William Augustus (Gus) Orchard, 10th Company, Machine Gun Corps, of Launceston, Tas. A farm labourer prior to enlisting on 16 March 1916, Pte Orchard embarked from Hobart, Tas, aboard HMAT Berrima on 1 July 1916. He was wounded in France and died of those wounds, on 11 April 1918, in Brookwood, Surrey, England, aged 45.