Studio portrait of 840 Sapper Alfred Henry Marshall, 1st Australian Mining and Boring Company ...

Accession Number P08624.279
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 840 Sapper Alfred Henry Marshall, 1st Australian Mining and Boring Company Australian Engineers of Leichhardt, NSW. A fireman prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Ulysses (A38) on 20 February 1916. He died of pneumonia on 27 August 1916 at the 7th Canadian Stationary Hospital, Le Havre, France, aged 28. He is buried in the Ste Marie Cemetery, Le Havre, France.

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