Studio portrait of 36539 Gunner Harold Victor Walters, 7th Field Artillery Brigade (FAB) from ...

Accession Number H06324
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 36539 Gunner Harold Victor Walters, 7th Field Artillery Brigade (FAB) from South Brisbane, Queensland. A 24 year old accountant prior to enlisting on 2 November 1916, he embarked for overseas with the 29th Reinforcements from Sydney on 5 November 1917 aboard HMAT Port Sydney. On arriving in France, he joined the 25th Battery of the 7th FAB and was killed in action on 31 August 1918 at Suzanne in the Somme River Valley. He is buried in the Suzanne Military Cemetery No 3, France.