Studio portrait of 2772 2nd Corporal (2nd Cpl) Frederick Charles Poole, 2nd Australian Railway ...

Accession Number P09796.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made October 1918
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 2772 2nd Corporal (2nd Cpl) Frederick Charles Poole, 2nd Australian Railway Company, taken in Melbourne just before embarkation. An engine driver from Cowra, NSW, prior to enlisting in July 1918, he embarked from Melbourne aboard SS Zealandic on 5 October 1918. 2nd Cpl Poole died of pneumonia in Le Havre, France, on 13 February 1919, aged 29. (See also P09796.002)