Pre-war studio portrait of 22108 Private (Pte) Arnold Joseph Wallace Bailey, 8th Field Artillery ...

Accession Number P07397.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made c 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

Pre-war studio portrait of 22108 Private (Pte) Arnold Joseph Wallace Bailey, 8th Field Artillery Brigade, of Camberwell, Vic. An electrician before enlisting in April 1916, Pte Bailey left Australia for England with the 108 Battery of the 23rd Howitzer Brigade in May 1916. Arriving in France for service on the Western Front in December 1916, Pte Bailey was killed in action during the Battle of Messines on 19 June 1917, aged 21.