Studio portrait of 3246 Private William Roy Doughan, 55th Battalion of Kogarah, NSW. A clerk ...

Accession Number P08624.146
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 3246 Private William Roy Doughan, 55th Battalion of Kogarah, NSW. A clerk prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard the HMAT Suevic (A29) on 11 November 1916. He was killed by a shell on 26 September 1917 while in action, at Polygon Wood, Belgium, aged 23. He is buried in the Aeroplane Cemetery, Belgium.