The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Studio portrait of 2082 Private (Pte) Thomas Alfred Reginald Wright, 1st Battalion. Pte Wright worked as a fireman prior to enlisting at Kangaroo Valley, NSW, on 27 April 1915. He was killed in action during the battle of Lone Pine, Gallipoli, between 6-11 August 1915, aged 28, and is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula. His brother 3463 Corporal Frederick William Norman Wright, 2nd Battalion was also killed on 27 November 1917. This photograph is from an Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau file. The Bureau, which commenced operation in October 1915, sought to identify, investigate and respond to enquiries made regarding the fate of Australian personnel. It investigated the majority of personnel posted as wounded and missing on official Army lists, as well as written enquiries from concerned relatives and friends. Approximately 32,000 individual case files were opened for Australian personnel who were reported as wounded or missing during the First World War. The Bureau employed searchers to operate both at the front and in Britain. They searched official lists of wounded and missing, interviewed comrades of missing soldiers in hospitals and wrote to men on active service. Altogether 400,000 responses were sent back to those who placed enquiries with the Bureau.
Studio portrait of 1336 Private (Pte) Martin Michael Dillon, 13th Battalion. A farm labourer of Junee Reefs, NSW, he enlisted on 18 November 1914 and sailed from Sydney on HMAT Seang Bee with the 2nd
Studio portrait of 2252 Private (Pte) Wilfred Arthur Taylor, 10th Battalion, holding a bugle. A motor mechanic and cycle builder of Narracoorte, SA, he enlisted on 22 April 1915 and sailed with the 6t
Portrait of Frank Samuel Crowhurst, a salesman of Stepney, SA. He enlisted in the AIF on 20 August 1914 with the number 186 and sailed from Adelaide with F Company, 10th Battalion, aboard HMAT Ascaniu
Studio portrait of 2007 Private (Pte) Hillary Austin Pike, 3rd Battalion. A trapper of Tumut, NSW, he enlisted on 15 January 1915 and sailed from Sydney with the 5th Reinforcements on 13 April 1915 ab
Studio portrait of 2481 Private (Pte) John Ralph Wright, 60th Battalion. Pte Wright, of Kew, Vic, enlisted on 28 May 1915. Later promoted to the rank of Lance Corporal, Wright was killed in action in
Studio portrait of 1144 Private (Pte) Clifford Gordon Cornwall, 16th Battalion. A labourer of Norwood, SA, he enlisted on 16 September 1914 and sailed from Melbourne on HMAT Ceramic with G Company, on
