Studio portrait of 7481 Sapper (Spr) John Charlton Dickinson, 1st Divisional Signal Company, of ...

Accession Number P08857.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Print
Maker Unknown
Date made c 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 7481 Sapper (Spr) John Charlton Dickinson, 1st Divisional Signal Company, of Carlingford, NSW. Spr Dickinson, an electrical engineer prior to enlisting on 24 January 1916, embarked from Sydney with the 16th Reinforcements aboard SS Makarini on 1 April 1916. On 5 August 1917, he died of wounds received in action in Belgium. He was 20 years of age.