P01645.004 Accession Number: P01645.004

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Grave in the Christian cemetery of 8053 Petty Officer (PO) Stephen John Gilbert, crewmember of the submarine HMAS AE2 and then prisoner of war captured by the Turks on 30 April 1915. He died on 9 October 1916 aged 39 years, from malaria and typhus, while working on the Baghdad to Berlin Railway. Later his body was reinterned in the war cemetery at Baghdad. (original held in AWM archive store. Same image held at P03483.022)

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Accession Number
P01645.004
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
c 1916
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor E Chomley
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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