Studio portrait of 4665 Private (Pte) Claude Membrey, 6th Battalion, of Northcote, VIC. A clerk ...

Accession Number P08069.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
Maker Unknown
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 4665 Private (Pte) Claude Membrey, 6th Battalion, of Northcote, VIC. A clerk prior to enlistment he embarked with the 14th Reinforcements on HMAT Themistocles (A32) on 28 January 1916. Pte Membrey was killed in action on 18 August 1916, aged 20. He has no known grave and his name is recored on the Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France.

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