Studio portrait of 103 Private (Pte) (later Lance Sergeant) Albert Herbert Bouquet, 3rd ...

Accession Number P06527.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales
Date made c 1914
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 103 Private (Pte) (later Lance Sergeant) Albert Herbert Bouquet, 3rd Battalion, of Bega, NSW. Formerly a chauffeur, Pte Bouquet enlisted on 25 August 1914 and as a member of A Company he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Euripides on 20 October 1914. He served at Gallipoli and was wounded in the hand. After recovering, he served on the Western front where he was killed in action at Pozieres, France, on 23 July 1916, aged 21, and has no known grave.