Studio portrait of 2545 Private (Pte) Ernest Bazen Beddow, 35th Battalion. A labourer from ...

Accession Number P09851.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Parker, William G
Date made c 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Studio portrait of 2545 Private (Pte) Ernest Bazen Beddow, 35th Battalion. A labourer from Willsons Downfall, NSW, he embarked with the 35th Battalion, 5th Reinforcements on 25 October 1916 aboard HMAT Ascanius (A11). Pte Beddow died on 28 January 1917 of broncho-pneumonia, which he contracted during training at Salisbury Plains. He was buried at the Bilston cemetery, Staffordshire, England.

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