Studio portrait of 5827 Private (later Sergeant) Percy Ernest Bergman, 1st Field Bakery ...

Accession Number P08624.421
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 5827 Private (later Sergeant) Percy Ernest Bergman, 1st Field Bakery Australian Army Service Corps of Cabramatta, NSW. A baker prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Hororata (A20) on 10 April 1915. He died of pneumonia in the 1st Australian General Hospital, Rouen, France, aged 27. He is buried in the St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France.