Studio portrait of 3890 Private (Pte) Wallace Harry Sales, 30th Battalion. A painter from Auburn, ...

Accession Number P11404.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
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 3890 Private (Pte) Wallace Harry Sales, 30th Battalion. A painter from Auburn, NSW prior to enlistment, Pte Sales embarked with the 9th Reinforcements from Sydney on HMAT Anchises on 24 August 1916. Whilst serving in France he was gassed and evacuated to England. Following his recovery he rejoined his unit and, on 8 August 1918, he was killed in action and buried in the Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, France.