P03693.002 Accession Number: P03693.002

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Studio portrait of Able Seaman (AB) Frederick George Jurd, Naval Contingent of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF), who enlisted on 15 August 1914, aged 43 years. AB Jurd served with the force until January 1915. In May 1915, he enlisted as a private and joined the 2nd Battalion. He saw service at Gallipoli and was stationed there until the evacuation. In 1916, he was transferred to the 5th Pioneer Battalion and served until the remainder of the war, rising to the rank of Warrant Officer. Jurd was decorated three times in 1918, receiving the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM), the Military Medal (MM) and the Belgian Croix de Guerre. He returned to Australia in February 1919, and was discharged as medically unfit due to a gun shot wound incurred at Bellicourt to his right leg.

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Accession Number
P03693.002
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Film copy negative
Date Made
c 1914
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor J F Hawkins
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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