Studio portrait of 10000 Gunner William Arthur Wright, 1st (later 21st) Field Artillery Brigade, ...

Accession Number P05301.149
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
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 10000 Gunner William Arthur Wright, 1st (later 21st) Field Artillery Brigade, of Mosman, NSW. Son of William Martin Wright and Bertha Wright. An accountant prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Berrima (A35) on 17 December 1915. He was killed in action on 14 November 1916 in France, aged 22. He is buried in Delville Wood Cemetery Longueval, France.