Studio portrait of 678 Driver (Dvr) Charles Thomas Black, 32nd Battalion. A greengrocer from ...

Accession Number P09136.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1915
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 678 Driver (Dvr) Charles Thomas Black, 32nd Battalion. A greengrocer from Hackham, SA prior to enlistment, Dvr Black embarked with the Transport Section from Adelaide on HMAT Katuna on 11 November 1915. On 24 June 1918 he was killed in action, aged 34, and was buried in the Vaux-Sur-Somme Communal Cemetery Extension, France. His remains were later exhumed and re-interred in the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery (Australian Memorial Cemetery).