P08636.001 Accession Number: P08636.001

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Studio portrait of 913 Private (Pte) Victor James Roy Eliason, 7th Battalion, of Bendigo, Vic. A labourer prior to enlisting on 18 August 1914, he embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Hororata (A20) on 19 October 1914. He landed at Gallipoli on 25 April and was wounded in the shoulder causing his evacuation for treatment in early May. He returned to Gallipoli on 15 August until again being wounded in action on 28 August 1915. After recovery in England, he arrived in France in June 1916 for service on the Western Front. Pte Eliason was transferred to the 2nd Machine Gun Company in May 1917 and to the 1st Machine Gun Battalion on 1 April 1918. Pte Eliason was killed in action in Belgium on 15 May 1918, aged 27 years. He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal on 19 June 1918.

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Accession Number
P08636.001
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Digital file
Date Made
c 1914
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor A Eliason
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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