Studio portrait of 1390 Private (later Corporal) Eric Albert Edwin Goodacre, 3rd Light Trench ...

Accession Number P08624.465
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 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.