Studio portrait of 4552 Private John Edward Wheeler, 19th Battalion of Auburn, NSW. A ...

Accession Number P08624.312
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 4552 Private John Edward Wheeler, 19th Battalion of Auburn, NSW. A slaughterman prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Nestor (A71) on 9 April 1916. He was killed in action, on 5 October 1916, near Ypres, Belgium, aged 25. He is buried in the Railway Dugouts Burial Ground, Belgium.