Place | Europe: Belgium, Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Ypres |
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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 This item is in the Public Domain |
Studio portrait of 29912 Gunner James Wawn Ambler, 5th Trench Mortar Battery of Prahran, Vic. A ...
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.