Group portrait relating to 8756 Sergeant Alfred Samuel Brabham MM, 4th Field Artillery Brigade

Accession Number AWM2019.765.2
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made 28 February 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

Informal group portrait of Australian servicemen. Identified front row, centre is 8756 Sergeant Alfred Samuel Brabham MM, 4th Field Artillery Brigade. Photograph was attached to a letter sent from Sgt Brabham to his father, written on a cereal box.

An engineer from Kent Town, South Australia, Sgt Brabham enlisted on 6 September 1915. He was Mention in Dispatches and was awarded a Military Medal for his service on the Western Front. Sgt Brabham returned to Australia on 16 March 1918.