Studio portrait of 6069 Driver (Dvr) Hugh (Hughie) McLauglin Carson, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade. ...

Accession Number P11552.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Toned black & white print
Maker American Galleries
Place made United Kingdom: England
Date made 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 6069 Driver (Dvr) Hugh (Hughie) McLauglin Carson, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade. A farmer from Harrisville, Queensland, Dvr Carson embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Wandilla (A62) on 9 November 1915. He died of wounds in France on 29 May 1918, aged 23. Dvr Carson was wounded at Franvillers when he and fellow drivers were attempting to rescue their horses from wagon lines which were being shelled.