Studio portrait of 7271 Private (Pte) William Owen Mumford, 23rd Battalion, of Moulamein, NSW. A ...

Accession Number P08355.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital file TIFF
Maker Kalma
Place made Australia: Victoria, Bendigo
Date made 1917
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 7271 Private (Pte) William Owen Mumford, 23rd Battalion, of Moulamein, NSW. A farm labourer prior to enlistment he embarked from Melbourne, VIC with the 24th Reinforcements on HMAT Ballarat (A70) on 19 February 1917. Pte Mumford was killed in action on 3 October 1917, aged 20. He is buried at the Perth Cemetery (China Wall) Zillebeke, Belgium.