Studio portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Joseph Rupert Balfe, 6th Battalion. A medical student of ...

Accession Number P06424.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Egypt: Cairo
Date made 11 March 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 Lieutenant (Lt) Joseph Rupert Balfe, 6th Battalion. A medical student of Brunswick, Victoria, prior to enlistment, he embarked as a Second Lieutenant with A Company aboard HMAT Hororata on 19 October 1914. Lt Balfe was killed at the landing on Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. He was aged 25 years and one month.