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

Informal portrait of an unidentified soldier and 2634 Private Howard Erskine Davies, 58th Battalion (seated) on board a ship. 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.