Studio portrait of 1016 Private (Pte) Ernest Alfred Williams, 39th Battalion, of Glengarry, Vic. ...

Accession Number P07690.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Lafayette Ltd
Place made United Kingdom
Date made 1916 - 1917
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 1016 Private (Pte) Ernest Alfred Williams, 39th Battalion, of Glengarry, Vic. A farm labourer before enlisting on 14 March 1916, he embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Ascanius on 27 May 1916. He was killed in action in Belgium on 12 October 1917, at the age of 27.