Studio portrait of 4845 Private (Pte) Albert Edward Mitchell, 3rd Battalion, of Balmain, NSW, ...

Accession Number P07100.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital file TIFF
Maker Bullough, George A
Rossetti Studios
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Balmain
Date made 1915-1916
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 4845 Private (Pte) Albert Edward Mitchell, 3rd Battalion, of Balmain, NSW, (originally of Brisbane, Qld). A boilermaker prior to enlistment, Pte Mitchell embarked with the 15th Reinforcements from Sydney on HMAT Star of England on 8 March 1916. On 19 July 1916, having transferred firstly to the 55th Battalion, then the 59th Battalion, Pte Mitchell was killed in action at Fromelles, France, aged 23. He has no known grave and is commemorated in VC Corner, Australian Cemetery Memorial, Fromelles. His brother, 5157 Pte Roy Mitchell, enlisted in the 2nd Battalion on 30 August 1915, and died of wounds at Broonseinde, Belgium, on 4 October 1917, aged 21.