Informal portrait of 4548 Private (Pte) Roger Francis Hogan, 29th Battalion, of Birchip, Vic. A ...

Accession Number P07591.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made c 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Informal portrait of 4548 Private (Pte) Roger Francis Hogan, 29th Battalion, of Birchip, Vic. A farmer prior to enlistment, he embarked on board HMAT Medic (A7) on 16 December 1916. Pte Hogan, a stretcher bearer, was killed by a shell explosion as he was going to the assistance of a wounded man at Morlancourt, France, on 29 July 1918. He was 29 years of age.