Studio portrait of 938 Private (Pte) Phillip Edgar Williams, 9th Company Machine Gun Corps, of ...

Accession Number P08691.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Digital file
Maker Unknown
Date made 1916
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 938 Private (Pte) Phillip Edgar Williams, 9th Company Machine Gun Corps, of Mintaro, SA. A labourer prior to enlistment he embarked with the 2nd Reinforcements on HMAT Ballarat (A70) on 12 August 1916. Pte Williams was killed in action at Passchendaele, Belgium on 4 October 1917, aged 20. He has no known grave and his name is recored on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.