An unidentified private of the 10th Battalion. Bean photographed this soldier to document his ...

Accession Number E03799
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W)
Place made France: Nord Pas de Calais, Nord, Hazebrouck, France: Nord Pas de Calais, Nord, Hazebrouck
Date made 31 July 2018
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

An unidentified private of the 10th Battalion. Bean photographed this soldier to document his battle order kit in the condition in which it came out of the battle of Merris, with the aim of collecting the uniform for the Australian War Memorial. A different uniform, that of 4172 Private (Pte) George James Giles, 29th Battalion, was actually collected.