Toned black and white portrait of 664 Private (Pte) Frederick Clarke. Pte Clarke embarked from ...

Accession Number P02928.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Reverse painted glass - photograph
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made c 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Toned black and white portrait of 664 Private (Pte) Frederick Clarke. Pte Clarke embarked from Sydney on 28 November 1914. He served at the 2nd Australian General Hospital at Mena and then with the 11th Field Ambulance in France. Pte Clarke was wounded in action on 19 October 1917, and returned to Australia on 1 June 1918. Pte Clarke's photographic portrait is framed beneath an ornamental, reverse-painted sheet of glass depicting waratahs, Sydney flannel flowers, and a cartouche featuring the Australian flag and the Union Jack and the patriotic slogan 'He heard the call'. The portrait was produced by a studio in Sydney; the Memorial holds another, very similar example, of 6210 Pte Harold Murray of Redfern (P03760).

Related information