Studio portrait of 5668 Private (Pte) John Edward Price, 23rd Battalion. A labourer from ...

Accession Number H05750
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 5668 Private (Pte) John Edward Price, 23rd Battalion. A labourer from Collingwood, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Price embarked with the 15th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Shropshire on 25 September 1916. On 25 March 1917 he died, aged 39, from wounds received in action at Lagnicourt, France and was buried in the Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension.