Studio portrait of 178 Sapper Albert Edward Renshaw, 2nd Field Company Engineers from Brunswick, ...

Accession Number H05471
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of 178 Sapper Albert Edward Renshaw, 2nd Field Company Engineers from Brunswick, Victoria. A 27 year old boilermaker prior to enlistment on 20 August 1914, he embarked for overseas on 21 October 1914 from Melbourne aboard HMAT Orvieto. He died of wounds on 26 April 1915 and is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli.