Studio portrait of 3597 Private Alfred Astridge, 45th Battalion of Lidcombe, NSW. A labourer ...

Accession Number P08624.321
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 3597 Private Alfred Astridge, 45th Battalion of Lidcombe, NSW. A labourer prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Marathon (A74) on 10 May 1917. On 2 April 1918, near Albert, France, he was killed in action, aged 40. He is buried in the Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, France.