Studio portrait of 805 Bugler (later Private) Reginald Cowel Wholohan, 19th Battalion of Harris ...

Accession Number P08624.128
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 805 Bugler (later Private) Reginald Cowel Wholohan, 19th Battalion of Harris Park, NSW. A signwriter prior to enlisting, he embarked on 16 August 1915. He was wounded in action at Flers, France on 19 November 1916, but died before reaching the dressing station, aged 19. He was buried in the field but post war his body was not recovered. He is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.