Studio portrait of 3140 Gunner (later Driver) Joseph Henry Brown, 1st (later 2nd) Brigade ...

Accession Number P08624.460
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 3140 Gunner (later Driver) Joseph Henry Brown, 1st (later 2nd) Brigade Australian Field Artillery of Fairfield, NSW. A labourer prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Borda (A30) on 22 December 1914. He was wounded in action on 15 August 1917 near Ypres, Belgium, and died later that day at the 55th Field Ambulance Station, Belgium, aged 28. He is buried in the The Huts Cemetery, Belgium.