Studio portrait of 460 Private Daniel Davies, 5th Machine Gun Company of Wallsend, NSW. A shop ...

Accession Number P08624.037
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 460 Private Daniel Davies, 5th Machine Gun Company of Wallsend, NSW. A shop assistant prior to enlisting, he embarked from Melbourne aboard the HMAT Ulysses (A38) on 25 October 1916. He died on 6 May 1917, aged 22, at the 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station, France of gunshot wounds received in action during the battle at Bullecourt, Queant Sector on 4 May 1917. He is buried in the Grevillers British Cemetery, France.