Studio portrait of 3756 Sapper Francis Walter Newell, 7th Field Company Engineers, of Stanmore, ...

Accession Number P05301.203
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 3756 Sapper Francis Walter Newell, 7th Field Company Engineers, of Stanmore, NSW. Son of Richard and Catherine Newell, of Newtown, NSW. A bricklayer prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Ceramic (A40) on 30 November 1915. He died of wounds, received in action, on 29 July 1916 in France, aged 24. He is buried in Puchevillers British Cemetery, France.