Studio portrait of 5998 Private (Pte) James Newman Brealey, 16th Battalion, of Nannine, WA. A ...

Accession Number P07791.001
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 5998 Private (Pte) James Newman Brealey, 16th Battalion, of Nannine, WA. A labourer before enlisting in March 1916, Pte Brealey left Australia for England with the 19th Reinforcements and arrived in France for service on the Western Front in December 1916. Pte Brealey was killed during the 4th Division's attack on the Hindenburg Line at Bullecourt on 11 April 1917, aged 20, and has no known grave.