Studio portrait of 3723 Private Alexander Duckworth, 1st Battalion of Darlinghurst, NSW. A ...

Accession Number P08624.422
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 3723 Private Alexander Duckworth, 1st Battalion of Darlinghurst, NSW. A railway employee prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard RMS Mooltan on 11 December 1915. He was killed in action at Pozieres, France on 22 July 1916, aged 34. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.