The remains of 6750 Private Sydney James Sullivan, who died of disease at the 3rd Australian ...

Accession Number E03658
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Abbeville
Date made 16 October 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

The remains of 6750 Private Sydney James Sullivan, who died of disease at the 3rd Australian General Hospital at Abbeville on 14 October 1918, being carried by his comrades to the wagon for conveyance to the Military portion of the Abbeville cemetery. The coffin is covered with a Union Jack flag and the slouch hats of the six pallbearers are on top of the coffin as they carry it down the road past a guard of honour to a waiting wagon.

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