Studio portrait of 4846 Private George Springett, 30th Battalion of Granville, NSW. A painter ...

Accession Number P08624.210
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 4846 Private George Springett, 30th Battalion of Granville, NSW. A painter prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Anchises (A68) on 24 January 1917. He was killed in action on 20 April 1918 in the village of Hamlet, France while on salvage patrol, aged 27. He is buried in the Adelaide Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, France.