P08624.209 Accession Number: P08624.209

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Studio portrait of 4307 Private (later Sapper) Sydney Sowter, 13th Battalion (later 13th Brigade Australian Field Artillery) of Granville, NSW. A boilermaker prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Aeneas (A60) on 20 December 1915. He was killed in action at Passchendaele, Belgium on 12 October 1917, aged 25. He is buried in the Hooge Crater Cemetery, Belgium.

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Accession Number
P08624.209
Maker
Cumberland
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Photomechanical print
Date Made
1920
Place Made
Whole/Part
Child
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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