Studio portrait of 2473 Private (later Corporal) James Bertram Snelling, 19th (later 4th) ...

Accession Number P08624.414
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 2473 Private (later Corporal) James Bertram Snelling, 19th (later 4th) Battalion of Liverpool, NSW. A railway porter prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Themistocles (A32) on 5 October 1915. He was killed in action on 22 March 1918 in Belgium, aged 24. He is buried in the Spoilbank Cemetery, Belgium.