Informal portrait of 2076 Private (Pte) Donald Desmond Geary of the 36th Battalion (right), and ...

Accession Number P06242.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Belgium
Date made c 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal portrait of 2076 Private (Pte) Donald Desmond Geary of the 36th Battalion (right), and an unidentified man. Pte Geary was killed by a shell at Messines on 10 June 1917 whilst covering a trench digging section with a Lewis gun, and has no known grave.