Studio portrait of 23270 Gunner (Gnr) Guy Walter Ralston, 113th Howitzer Battery. A native of ...

Accession Number H06404
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

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Description

Studio portrait of 23270 Gunner (Gnr) Guy Walter Ralston, 113th Howitzer Battery. A native of Bulls, New Zealand, Gnr Ralston was a farmer from Toowoomba, Qld prior to enlistment and embarked with the 3rd Reinforcements, 21st Howitzer Brigade from Sydney on HMAT Ajana on 5 July 1916. On 4 October 1917, aged 28, he died of wounds received in action and was buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.

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