Studio portrait of 2551 Private (later Lance Corporal) Charles James Anderson, 1st Battalion of ...

Accession Number P08624.319
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 2551 Private (later Lance Corporal) Charles James Anderson, 1st Battalion of Lidcombe, NSW. A clerk prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Runic (A54) on 9 August 1915. He was killed in action, on 22 July 1916, at Pozieres, France, aged 25. He is buried in Gordon Dump Cemetery, Ovillers-La Boiselle, France.