Studio portrait of 4244 Private Albert John Butler 30th Battalion, of Parramatta, NSW. A ...

Accession Number P08624.020
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Cumberland
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Parramatta1
Date made 1920
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 4244 Private Albert John Butler 30th Battalion, of Parramatta, NSW. A hospital attendant prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard the SS Nicholson on 8 November 1916. Pte Butler was wounded in action on 10 October 1917, at Armentieres, Belgium and died at the 3rd Canadian Clearing Station on 12 October 1917, aged 24. He is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery Belgium.