Studio portrait of Aboriginal serviceman 3662 Private Harold Arthur Cowan at the age of twenty ...

Place Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Grafton
Accession Number P02179.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
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 Aboriginal serviceman 3662 Private Harold Arthur Cowan at the age of twenty one years. Known also as Arthur Williams, Cowan enlisted in Grafton, NSW, on 16 November 1917 and served with the 6th Light Horse Regiment. In his youth Cowan was an all round sportsman, a representative for the North Coast in football, and a well known boxer.