135207
Photograph 135207 Period 1960-1969SIERRA LEONE, AFRICA. 1960-04-25. WALL PLAQUE IN THE MAIN ENTRANCE GATES OF THE KING TOM CEMETERY, FREETOWN. THIS PLAQUE WAS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF ALLIED SERVICEMEN WHO DIED DURING ACTIVE SERVICE B
P07063.001 Accession Number: P07063.001
Description
Studio portrait of 58051 Private (Pte) Clyde Edgar Affleck, a postman from Killarney, Qld, who joined the AIF on 21 May 1918. Pte Affleck embarked on HMAT Bakara (A41) with the 6th General Reinforcements in Sydney on 4 September 1918 bound for England by way of the Cape of Good Hope. On 17 October 1918 he was admitted to the ships hospital with pneumonia and was disembarked on 25 October 1918 at Freetown, Sierra Leone, and admitted to the Military Hospital where he died on 27 October 1918 of influenza. Pte Affleck was buried in the Naval and Military Cemetery, King Tom, Sierra Leone. He was 20 years old.
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Accession Number
P07063.001
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Date Made
c 1918
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor S Hardcastle
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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