Group portrait of the 16th Battery Australian Field Artillery football team. Identified, seated ...

Accession Number P11259.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1918-1919
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of the 16th Battery Australian Field Artillery football team. Identified, seated third from left, front row, is 26683 Driver (Dvr) Henry Clyde Kirk, 6th Field Artillery Brigade. A stockman prior to enlisting on 17 February 1916, Dvr Kirk embarked for overseas service aboard HMAT Port Sydney (A15) on 7 September 1916. Dvr Kirk was captain of the16th Battery Australian Field Artillery football team and participated in a football tour with this team in France, March 1919. He returned to Australia on 4 June 1919.

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