Studio portrait of 3133 Private (later Corporal) Percy William Wintle, 56th Battalion, of Mosman, ...

Accession Number P11243.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Toned black & white print
Maker A. E. Stanley
Place made United Kingdom: England, Bristol
Date made c 1917
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 3133 Private (later Corporal) Percy William Wintle, 56th Battalion, of Mosman, NSW (originally of Bristol, England). Pte Wintle enlisted with the 4th Battalion in July 1915 and transferred to the 56th Battalion in February 1916. In April 1918 he was received a gunshot wound to the shoulder and was evacuated to hospital in England. While in England he contracted influenza, and, after recovery was repatriated to Australia and discharged.

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