| Accession Number | P11028.024.001 |
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| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | |
| Maker |
Aarons, Daniel Sidney |
| Place made | Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Messines |
| Date made | 1916 |
| Conflict |
South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War) First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Informal portrait of 2nd Lieutenant (Lt) Douglas Freeman, 15th Reinforcements, 16th Battalion, of ...
Description
Informal portrait of 2nd Lieutenant (Lt) Douglas Freeman, 15th Reinforcements, 16th Battalion, of Perth, WA (formally of Brighton, England) sitting behind a 15inch dud shell, possibly from 'Granny' a 15 inch Howitzer (heavy artillery gun) that greatly assisted the allied advance by pounding the German concrete fortresses. The shell had been located in a bombed out building at Messines. Lt Freeman enlisted on 25 October 1915 and embarked from Fremantle aboard HMAT Ulysses on 1 April 1916. He was killed in action in Belgium on 26 September 1917 aged 38 years. He had also fought with the Sussex Yeomanry during the South African War.