A studio portrait of 3706 Private (Pte) Thomas Herbert Wragg, 26th Battalion, of Somerset, Tas. A ...

Accession Number P07922.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker Verrell, Edward
Place made Australia: Tasmania, Hobart
Date made 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

A studio portrait of 3706 Private (Pte) Thomas Herbert Wragg, 26th Battalion, of Somerset, Tas. A labourer before enlisting in August 1915, Pte Wragg left Australia for Egypt as a part of the 8th Reinforcements in September 1915. Arriving in France for service on the Western Front in March 1916, Pte Wragg was killed during the 2nd Division's attack on the Hindenburg Line at Bullecourt, France, on the 3 May 1917, aged 28. He has no known grave.