Studio portrait of 3893 Private (Pte) Robert Tomlin, 32nd Battalion. A farm labourer from ...

Accession Number P09291.404
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film original negative 120 safety base
Maker Unknown
Date made c August 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 3893 Private (Pte) Robert Tomlin, 32nd Battalion. A farm labourer from Camden, South Australia, prior to enlistment, he embarked with the 9th Reinforcements from Adelaide on 21 September 1916 aboard HMAT Commonwealth (A73) for Plymouth, England. Following training in England he proceeded to France and joined his battalion on the Western Front near Dernancourt in early January 1917. Pte Tomlin was wounded in action near Messines, Belgium, on 19 November 1917 and died of these wounds later that day at the 8th Australian Field Ambulance. He was aged 20 years.