Photographs relating to 2634 Private Howard Erskine Davies, 58th Battalion

Informal portrait of 2634 Private Howard Erskine Davies, 58th Battalion, with his wife Doris and his daughter Joan. The photograph was taken on the day Davies embarked from Melbourne. A clerk from East Malvern, Victoria prior to enlistment, A/Sgt Davies embarked with the 6th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Nestor on 2 October 1916. Later reverting to the rank of Private, he was wounded in action at Bullecourt. On 23 May 1917, aged 35, he died as a result of his wounds and was buried in the Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France.