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