Studio portrait of 2193 Private (Pte) Albert Edward Townsend, 7th Battalion, of Williamstown, ...

Accession Number P07185.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker The Marlborough Post Card
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made 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 2193 Private (Pte) Albert Edward Townsend, 7th Battalion, of Williamstown, Vic. A railway porter before enlisting on 18 March 1915, Pte Townsend embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Warilda on 17 June 1915 with the 6th Reinforcements. He was killed in action at Lone Pine on 8 August 1915, at the age of 21.