Studio portrait of 308 Private (Pte) Donald Peter Biddle, B Company, 25 Battalion, of Toowoomba, ...

Accession Number P06873.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Queensland
Date made c 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 308 Private (Pte) Donald Peter Biddle, B Company, 25 Battalion, of Toowoomba, Qld. Formerly a labourer, Pte Biddle enlisted on 9 February 1915, but died as the result of a railway accident at the Brunswick Street station, Brisbane, Qld, on 5 June 1915, aged 21, prior to his embarkation. Donald Biddle's brother, 1877 Pte William John Biddle, was killed whilst on active service in the First World War.