Studio portrait of 237 Private (Pte) William John Willshire, 11th Machine Gun Company, of Tambo, ...

Accession Number P07531.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
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 237 Private (Pte) William John Willshire, 11th Machine Gun Company, of Tambo, Qld. A labourer before enlisting in January 1916, Pte Willshire left Australia for England with the 1st Reinforcements in June 1916, and arrived in France for service on the Western Front in November 1916. Pte Willshire was wounded in the spine, neck and abdomen at Messines on 10 June 1917. He was evacuated to the 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station at Steenwerck where he died three days later, aged 32.