Pre enlistment studio portrait of 6572 Private (Pte) Stanley Charles Reed, 11th Battalion, of ...

Accession Number P08999.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
Maker Shan
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

Pre enlistment studio portrait of 6572 Private (Pte) Stanley Charles Reed, 11th Battalion, of Boulder, WA. An assistant at a cordial factory prior to enlisting in June 1916, Pte Reed embarked from Fremantle with the 21st Reinforcements on board HMAT Suffolk (A23) on 10 October 1916. He was killed in action at Polygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium, on 21 September 1917. Pte Reed was 21 years of age.