Studio portrait of 6421 Private (Pte) Charles Cephas Coley, 25th Battalion, of Rosewood, Ipswich, ...

Accession Number P07421.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital file TIFF
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made 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 6421 Private (Pte) Charles Cephas Coley, 25th Battalion, of Rosewood, Ipswich, Qld. A schoolteacher prior to enlistment, Pte Coley embarked with the 18th Reinforcements from Sydney on HMAT Demosthenes on 23 December 1916. On 2 September 1918 he was killed in action at Mont St Quentin, France, aged 19.