Studio portrait of 1650 Private Walter Armitage, 3rd Battalion of Granville, NSW. A pattern ...

Accession Number P08624.133
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 1650 Private Walter Armitage, 3rd Battalion of Granville, NSW. A pattern maker prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard the HMAT Seang Choon (A49) on 11 February 1915. He was killed in action on 7 August 1915 at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Turkey, aged 27. Post war his body was not located and he is remembered with honour on the Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey.