Studio portrait of 2145 Private John Alex McDonald, 6th Battalion. A farmer from Connewarre, ...

Accession Number P10187.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made 1914
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 2145 Private John Alex McDonald, 6th Battalion. A farmer from Connewarre, Victoria, Pte McDonald enlisted on 21 September 1914. On 15 June 1915, Pte McDonald was recorded as wounded and missing. He was later pronounced by a Court of Enquiry as killed in action on 8 May 1915 at the Gallipolli Peninsula. Pte McDonald's remains were exhumed from the Turkish Cemetery at Pine Ridge in August 1920 and reinterred in the Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli.