Studio portrait of 3612 Corporal (Cpl) Cecil Alwyn Cheadle, 56th Battalion, of Inverell, NSW. ...

Accession Number P06441.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker E A Sibly Photo
The Swiss Studios
Date made 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

Studio portrait of 3612 Corporal (Cpl) Cecil Alwyn Cheadle, 56th Battalion, of Inverell, NSW. Employed as an accountant before enlisting in July 1917, Cpl Cheadle left Australia with the 10th Reinforcements in October 1917. He was writing a letter to his mother in a reserve-line trench at Sailly-Le-Sec on 21 July 1918, when a German 'whiz-bang' shell landed nearby, wounding him in the neck. He was carried off by stretcher-bearers to a nearby casualty clearing station, but succumbed to his wounds nine hours later, age 24.