Studio portrait of 6770 Private Henry Alexander (Alex) Mell, 22nd Reinforcments, 13th Battalion, ...

Accession Number P03917.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
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

Studio portrait of 6770 Private Henry Alexander (Alex) Mell, 22nd Reinforcments, 13th Battalion, of Barraba, NSW, photographed in civilian clothes. He enlisted on 21 March 1916 and was a machine gunner with X Platoon, C Company, 13th Battalion. He was killed in action at Bullecourt, France, on 11 April 1917, aged thirty two.