H01493 Accession Number: H01493

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Studio portrait of 29912 Gunner James Wawn Ambler, 5th Trench Mortar Battery of Prahran, Vic. A clerk prior to his enlistment on 28 February 1916 he embarked from Melbourne on board HMAT Aeneas on 3 October 1916. The son of Raphael and Mary Ann Alice Ambler of Prahran, Vic he was killed in action at Menin Gate, Ypres on 5 September 1917, his 24th birthday, and is memorialised at 84 Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Belgium.

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Accession Number
H01493
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Print
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
c 1916
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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