Studio portrait of 4799 Private (Pte) Frederick William Dyer, 5th Battalion. A fireman from ...

Accession Number H05723
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Studio portrait of 4799 Private (Pte) Frederick William Dyer, 5th Battalion. A fireman from Thomastown, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Dyer embarked with the 15th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Wiltshire on 7 March 1916. On 19 August 1916, aged 22, he died of wounds received in action at Pozieres and was buried in the Worloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension.