Studio portrait of 1421 Private John Allan Ramsbottom, 3rd Battalion. A carpenter prior to ...

Accession Number P08624.197
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 1421 Private John Allan Ramsbottom, 3rd Battalion. A carpenter prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Seang Bee (A48) on 11 February 1915. He was killed in action at Gallipoli, Turkey on 7 August 1917, aged 25. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey.