Studio portrait of 7626 Gunner (Gnr) Aubrey Donald Old, 5th Field Artillery Brigade, of ...

Accession Number P08055.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
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 7626 Gunner (Gnr) Aubrey Donald Old, 5th Field Artillery Brigade, of Collector, NSW. A station hand prior to enlisting in July 1915, Gnr Old embarked on board HMAT Persic (A34) on 18 November 1915. He was transferred in November 1916 to the 2nd Division of Trench Mortar Battery. On 3 May 1917, Gnr Old died of wounds received in action at Bullecourt. He was 22 years of age.