Studio portrait of Signaller 4798 Private (Pte) Bryan Palmes, 25th Battalion, of Hainsult, ...

Accession Number P07935.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Sidney Riley Studios
Place made Australia: Queensland, Brisbane
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

Studio portrait of Signaller 4798 Private (Pte) Bryan Palmes, 25th Battalion, of Hainsult, Camboon, Qld. Formerly a station hand, Pte Palmes enlisted on 13 January 1916 and as a member of the 12 Reinforcements he embarked from Sydney aboard RMS Mooltan on 12 April 1916. He served on the Western Front where he was killed in action during the second battle of Bullecourt on 3 May 1917, aged 19.