Outdoor portrait of 106 Edward Henry James Hanns, from Bourke, NSW, wearing the uniform of a ...

Accession Number P03326.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1912
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Army organisation period 1912-1918 (not WWI)
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Outdoor portrait of 106 Edward Henry James Hanns, from Bourke, NSW, wearing the uniform of a driver in the Citizen Military Force (CMF). During the First World War he served with the 1st Battalion on the Western Front. He died of wounds on 20 July 1917 while a gunner with the 1st Brigade, Australian Field Artillery, and is buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, near Poperinge, Belgium.