| Accession Number | DA08956 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Black & white - Glass original half plate negative |
| Maker |
Darge Photographic Company |
| Place made | Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Broadmeadows |
| Date made | c 12 May 1915 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
|
Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives
Description
Studio portrait of 866 Private (Pte) John Albert Wiltshire, 23rd Battalion, of Coldermeade, Vic, aged twenty two, who enlisted on 26 February 1915. He was wounded on 3 May 1917 shortly before being commissioned as a second lieutenant on 31 May 1917. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) on 16 September 1919 for exceptional gallantry and devotion to duty at Ville-sur-Ancre, near Albert, on 18 May 1918 where he and two signallers established a telephone and communications in the village as the attack progressed. On 2 December 1918 he received a Bar to his MC and returned to Australia on 29 May 1919.