Studio portrait of Captain Wallace Gordon Jewkes, Senior Cadets, later Lieutenant, 39th ...

Accession Number P09948.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker T Humphrey And Co
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made 22 May 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 Captain Wallace Gordon Jewkes, Senior Cadets, later Lieutenant, 39th Battalion. Lt Jewkes was shot during a raid on a German trench in the Houplines sector, Armentieres, and died of these wounds on 10 January 1917. He was aged 22 years.