Studio portrait of 6077 Private Robert Edgar Herbert Lamb, 13th Battalion of Auburn, NSW. A ...

Accession Number P08624.272
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 6077 Private Robert Edgar Herbert Lamb, 13th Battalion of Auburn, NSW. A builder prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Wiltshire (A18) on 22 August 1916. He was killed in action on 11 April 1917 at Bullecourt, France, aged 35. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.