Studio portrait of 2159 Private (Pte) Colin Campbell Coutts, 50th Battalion, wearing a ...

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Accession Number P07039.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital file TIFF
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1916
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 2159 Private (Pte) Colin Campbell Coutts, 50th Battalion, wearing a signaller's qualification badge. A farmer from Mt Gambier, SA, he embarked from Adelaide with the 4th Reinforcements aboard HMAT Ballarat on 12 August 1916. Later transferring to the 43rd Battalion, Pte Coutts was severely wounded at Passchendaele, Belgium, and died two days later on 12 October 1917, aged 29.