Accession Number | P08624.001 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Photomechanical print |
Maker |
Cumberland |
Place made | Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Parramatta1, Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Parramatta1 |
Date made | 1920 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Studio portrait of 6393 Private (later Corporal) Joseph Clement Allport, 17th Battalion, of ...
Description
Studio portrait of 6393 Private (later Corporal) Joseph Clement Allport, 17th Battalion, of Erskinville, NSW A storeman prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Suevic (A29) on 11 November 1916. Cpl Allport died, aged 23, on 27 October 1917, in the 26th General Hospital, Etaples, France, of wounds received in action on 9th October 1917, at Ypres, Belgium. He is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery, France.