Studio portrait of Chaplain 4th Class David De Venny Hunter. A native of Banbridge, Ireland, ...

Accession Number P10427.014
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Toned black & white print
Maker Crown Studios
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made 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 Chaplain 4th Class David De Venny Hunter. A native of Banbridge, Ireland, Chaplain Hunter was a Methodist minister from Ballina, NSW prior to enlistment, and embarked from Sydney on HMAT Anchises on 24 August 1916. Later, whilst attached to the 55th Battalion, he was returning from visiting troops in the front line when he was killed by shell fire at Glencorse Wood on 28 September 1917, aged 41, and was buried in the Hooge Crater Cemetery, Zillebeke, Belgium.

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