Outdoor portrait of Walter James Crane with three indigenous service personnel during Crane's ...

Accession Number P07857.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made New Guinea1
Date made c 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Outdoor portrait of Walter James Crane with three indigenous service personnel during Crane's period as patrol officer in New Guinea. He later served as 436 Private (Pte) Walter James Crane, 20th Battalion and embarked with B Company from Sydney on HMAT Berrima on 25 June 1915. Later promoted to Lance Sergeant, he was wounded in action and returned to Australia on 18 December 1918.

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