Studio portrait of 2891 Private Sidney Burge Clarke 45th Battalion of Liverpool, NSW. A labourer ...

Accession Number P08624.391
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 2891 Private Sidney Burge Clarke 45th Battalion of Liverpool, NSW. A labourer prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard SS Port Nicholson on 8 November 1916. Pte Clarke was killed in action on 5 April 1918 during fighting near Dernancourt, France, aged 27. He is buried in the Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, France.