Group portrait of 2944A Private (Pte) James Bede McLean, 31st Battalion (centre front row), and ...

Accession Number P03632.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales
Date made c 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of 2944A Private (Pte) James Bede McLean, 31st Battalion (centre front row), and five friends, one of whom is in uniform. Pte McLean enlisted at Tuckurimba, NSW, on 9 December 1915. He was killed in action during the Battle of Flers on 1 November 1916; having no known grave, he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Somme, France.

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