AWM2016.26.20 Accession Number: AWM2016.26.20

Description

Outdoor group portrait of several members of the Abbott family, relatives of 3170 Sergeant Francis 'Frank' Arthur Abbott. Identified back row, left to right: May Abbott and James Joseph Abbott (siblings of Frank), Doris Beatty and her brother, Glen Beatty (neice and nephew) and Joseph Abbott Jnr (sibling). Identified seated, left to right, Frank's father, Joseph Abbott Snr and Joseph's eldest and youngest daughters, Annie Beatty (nee Abbott) and Ivy Abbott. Seated front row, left to right, Lorna Abbott and Arnold James Abbott, the children of James Joseph Abbott. The left hand side of the portrait is missing. The son of Joseph and Mary Ann Abbott of Hornseywood, Penrith, New South Wales, Frank Abbott served for five and a half years with the Citizen Military Forces, and was serving as a staff instructor when he enlisted in the AIF in 1917 with the service number 3170 and rank of Sergeant. He embarked from Sydney on 10 May 1917 with the 24th Battalion and later transferred to the 33rd Battalion. Sgt Frank Abbott was killed in action on 31 August 1918, aged 25. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France. See also AWM2016.26.17 and AWM2016.26.19.

Details

Accession Number
AWM2016.26.20
Photographer
Arthur Edgar Breyley
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Print
Physical Description
Support: Paper (Fibre-based)
Date Made
c 1917
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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