Studio portrait of 4104 Private Robert George Mills, 3rd Battalion of Granville, NSW, brother of ...

Accession Number P08624.085
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 4104 Private Robert George Mills, 3rd Battalion of Granville, NSW, brother of 2582 Private Frank Mills, (killed in action on 22 July 1916, see P08624.083). An apprentice boilermaker prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard the HMAT Medic (A7) on 30 December 1915. He died in France on 25 December 1916 of wounds received in action at Flers, France, aged 20. He is buried in Guards' Cemetery Lesboeufs, France.