Studio portrait of 730 Private Bertie Clyde Willick, 17th Battalion of Auburn, NSW. A carriage ...

Accession Number P08624.315
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 730 Private Bertie Clyde Willick, 17th Battalion of Auburn, NSW. A carriage builder prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Themistocles (A32) on 12 May 1915. He was killed in action, on 28 August 1915, at Gallipoli, Turkey, aged 26. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey.