H05782 Accession Number: H05782

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Studio portrait of 4530 Private (Pte) John Clare Murphy, 10th Battalion from Broken Hill, NSW. A 22 year old butcher prior to enlisting on 10 September 1915, he embarked for overseas with the 14th Reinforcements from Adelaide on 7 February 1916 aboard HMAT Miltiades. After further training in Egypt, he joined the battalion in France where he was wounded in action. On his recovery, Pte Murphy spent a short period with the 32nd Battalion before transferring back to the 10th Battalion in France and then served in Belgium where he was killed in action at Passchendaele on 8 October 1917. Pte Murphy is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres with others who have no known grave.

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Accession Number
H05782
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Print
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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