Studio portrait of 2506 Private Robert Millan Johnstone, 1st Battalion of Granville, NSW. A ...

Accession Number P08624.173
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 2506 Private Robert Millan Johnstone, 1st Battalion of Granville, NSW. A chef prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Orsova (A67) on 14 July 1915. He was killed in action at Westhoek Ridge, Belgium on 2 October 1917, aged 29. He is buried in the Hooge Crater Cemetery, Belgium.