Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives Accession Number: DA08956

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Studio portrait of 866 Private (Pte) John Albert Wiltshire, 23rd Battalion, of Coldermeade, Vic, aged twenty two, who enlisted on 26 February 1915. He was wounded on 3 May 1917 shortly before being commissioned as a second lieutenant on 31 May 1917. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) on 16 September 1919 for exceptional gallantry and devotion to duty at Ville-sur-Ancre, near Albert, on 18 May 1918 where he and two signallers established a telephone and communications in the village as the attack progressed. On 2 December 1918 he received a Bar to his MC and returned to Australia on 29 May 1919.

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Accession Number
DA08956
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Date Made
c 12 May 1915
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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