Studio portrait of 2369 Private (later Corporal) Edgar Richards Atkinson, (also known as Edgar ...

Accession Number P08624.225
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 2369 Private (later Corporal) Edgar Richards Atkinson, (also known as Edgar Richard), 45th Battalion of Auburn, NSW. A storekeeper prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Anchises (A68) on 24 August 1916. He was killed in action on 13 October 1917 near Zonnebeke, Belgium, aged 25. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.