Portrait: 2866 Private Percival George Chandler, 32nd Battalion

Accession Number AWM2019.531.2
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Date made 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
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Description

Framed oval portrait of 2866 Private (Pte) Percival George Chandler, 32nd Battalion. A commercial traveller prior to enlisting on 8 November 1915, he embarked from Adelaide aboard HMAT Aeneas (A60) on 11 April 1916. Pte Chandler was killed in action at Beaulencourt on 6 March 1917 and buried in the Bancourt British Cemetery, Picardie, France. He was 29 years old.