Studio portrait of 29912 Gunner James Wawn Ambler, 5th Trench Mortar Battery of Prahran, Vic. A ...

Place Europe: Belgium, Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Ypres
Accession Number H01493
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
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 29912 Gunner James Wawn Ambler, 5th Trench Mortar Battery of Prahran, Vic. A clerk prior to his enlistment on 28 February 1916 he embarked from Melbourne on board HMAT Aeneas on 3 October 1916. The son of Raphael and Mary Ann Alice Ambler of Prahran, Vic he was killed in action at Menin Gate, Ypres on 5 September 1917, his 24th birthday, and is memorialised at 84 Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Belgium.