Studio portrait of 2182 Private (Pte) Morgan Pearman, 4th Pioneer Battalion, of Gympie, Qld. A ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Queensland, Gympie
Accession Number P06971.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made c October 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 2182 Private (Pte) Morgan Pearman, 4th Pioneer Battalion, of Gympie, Qld. A miner before enlisting on 7 March 1916, Pte Pearman embarked on HMAT Clan McGillivray on 1 May 1916 with the 3rd Reinforcements. He died of a gunshot wound to his right leg on 14 August 1918, at the 5th General Hospital in Rouen, France.