Studio portrait of 610 Private (Pte) Albert Walter Lemke, 6th Battalion, of Fairfield, Vic. A ...

Accession Number P08986.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1914
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 610 Private (Pte) Albert Walter Lemke, 6th Battalion, of Fairfield, Vic. A labourer prior to enlisting in August 1914, Pte Lemke embarked from Melbourne on board HMAT Hororata (A20) on 19 October 1914. On 25 April 1915, he died of wounds received at the landing on Gallipoli. Pte Lemke was 33 years of age.