Studio portrait of 3316 Private (Pte) Arthur Roy Ford, 20th Battalion. A school teacher from ...

Accession Number H06632
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Studio portrait of 3316 Private (Pte) Arthur Roy Ford, 20th Battalion. A school teacher from Parkes, NSW prior to enlistment, Pte Ford embarked with the 7th Reinforcements from Sydney on HMAT Suevic on 20 December 1915. On 5 May 1916 he was killed in action near Armentieres, France, aged 22, and was buried in the Brewery Orchard Cemetery, Bois-Grenier, France.