Studio portrait of 7308 Private George Bell Rogers,1st Battalion of Parramatta, NSW. A wagon ...

Accession Number P08624.107
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 7308 Private George Bell Rogers,1st Battalion of Parramatta, NSW. A wagon driver prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard the RMS Osterley on 10 February 1917. He died of broncho pneumonia on 2 June 1917, at the Military Hospital, Fargo, England, aged 39. He is buried in the Durrington Cemetery, Wiltshire, England.