Studio portrait of 1127 Sapper (Spr) John Plunkett, 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company. A miner ...

Accession Number P10986.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Toned black & white print
Maker Unknown
Date made c 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 1127 Sapper (Spr) John Plunkett, 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company. A miner from Landsborough, Victoria, Spr Plunkett enlisted on 2 December 1915, age 33, and embarked aboard HMAT Ulysses (A38) from Sydney on 20 February 1916. Spr Plunkett died from gas poisoning in France on 30 April, 1917.

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