Studio portrait of 6475 Sapper (Spr) George Neil McAndrew, 4th Field Company, Royal Australian ...

Accession Number P09354.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital file JPEG
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 6475 Sapper (Spr) George Neil McAndrew, 4th Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers, of Norseman, WA. A mill hand prior to enlisting in October 1915, Spr McAndrew embarked with the 4th Reinforcements from Sydney on board HMAT Orsova (A67) on 11 March 1916. After further training in Egypt, he arrived in France for service on the Western Front in June 1916. In August he was transferred to the 13th Field Company. Sapper McAndrew was killed in action at Zonnebeke, Belgium, on 26 September 1917, aged 23.