Accession Number | P08624.323 |
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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 This item is in the Public Domain |
Studio portrait of 5976 Private Kenneth Bain, 2nd Battalion of Annandale, NSW. A grocer prior to ...
Description
Studio portrait of 5976 Private Kenneth Bain, 2nd Battalion of Annandale, NSW. A grocer prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Wiltshire (A18) on 22 August 1916. On 2 January 1917, he was admitted to the No 25 Stationary Hospital, Rouen, France with tubercular meningitis and died of the disease in hospital on 8 January 1917, aged 21. He is buried in the St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France.