Studio portrait of 683 Private (Pte) Joshua George Greening, 31st Battalion. A painter by ...

Accession Number P10116.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Victoria, Ballarat, Australia: Victoria, Ballarat
Date made c 1914-1915
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 683 Private (Pte) Joshua George Greening, 31st Battalion. A painter by profession when he enlisted on 14 July 1915, he had previously served in the Citizen Military Forces in Ballarat. He embarked with his unit aboard HMAT Wandilla (A62) on 7 December 1915. Pte Greening served on the Western Front in France and was killed in action at the Battle of Fromelles on 20 July 1916. He was 25 years old.