Framed studio portrait of 57 Private (Pte) Charles Gist, 14th Battalion, of Ballarat East, Vic. A ...

Accession Number P06562.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Fraser, Ballarat
Date made 1914
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Framed studio portrait of 57 Private (Pte) Charles Gist, 14th Battalion, of Ballarat East, Vic. A clerk before enlisting in October 1914, Pte Gist left Australia for Egypt in December 1914 with the original 14th Battalion. He was killed in action at Steele's Post on Gallipoli on 27 April 1915, age 22.

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