Accession Number | P08624.465 |
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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 This item is in the Public Domain |
Studio portrait of 1390 Private (later Corporal) Eric Albert Edwin Goodacre, 3rd Light Trench ...
Description
Studio portrait of 1390 Private (later Corporal) Eric Albert Edwin Goodacre, 3rd Light Trench Mortar Battery (later 34th Battalion) of Fairfield, NSW. A shop assistant prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Ascanius (A11) on 25 October 1916. He was killed in action on 12 October 1917 during operations at Passchendaele, Belgium, aged 20. He is buried in the Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium.