Studio portrait of 2148 Private Claude Albert Crome, 45th Battalion of Parramatta, NSW. A ...

Accession Number P08624.035
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Cumberland
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
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 2148 Private Claude Albert Crome, 45th Battalion of Parramatta, NSW. A carpenter prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard the HMAT Wiltshire (A18) on 22 August 1916. He was killed in action on 9 June 1917 at Messines, Belgium, aged 24. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.