Teddys dream

Place Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Queenscliff
Accession Number ART93180.002
Collection type Art
Measurement Sheet: 33.6 x 20.7 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pencil, pen and ink on paper
Maker Zif
Place made Australia: Victoria, Queenscliff
Date made c. 1909-1910
Conflict Period 1910-1919
Period 1900-1909
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright unknown

Description

Soldier, Edward "Teddy" Flood, asleep and dreaming of rank chevrons. Flood (272) went on to serve in the First World War as a gunner in the Siege Artillery Brigade. He was originally from County Kildare, Ireland, and enlisted at the age of 41. He died of a gunshot wound to the chest on 18 April 1918, which he received the previous day, and is buried in Boulogne, France.