Studio portrait of 2016 Corporal Walter Stanley Dawe, 32nd Battalion

Accession Number P03567.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: South Australia
Date made c 1915
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 2016 Corporal Walter Stanley Dawe, a Methodist minister from Kadina, SA. Dawe enlisted in the third reinforcements of 32 Battalion on 3 August 1915, as a soldier rather than a chaplain. He was killed in action at Messines, Belgium, on 20 February 1918 and is buried at Messines Ridge British Cemetery.

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