P03483.041 Accession Number: P03483.041

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Studio portrait of 977 Lance Corporal (LCpl) Arthur Price, 6th Battalion. Born in Birkenhead, England, he enlisted on 17 August 1914 in West Melbourne, Victoria and sailed with H Company on 19 October 1914 aboard HMAT Hororata. LCpl Price took part in a charge on a German Officer's trench near Lone Pine, Gallipoli, when he was killed in that action on 7 August 1915, aged 29. 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.

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Accession Number
P03483.041
Maker
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Date Made
1914-1915
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor Australian Red Cross Society
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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