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Black and White Photographic Postcard of Aubrey John (Jack) Akrill BECKLEY

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c. 1915

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Black & white photographic postcard of Aubrey John (Jack) Akrill BECKLEY 1673, standing in a trench smoking a pipe, with an artillery gun in the background.

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Registration number

cwa-org-12-2024.11.1

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Material

Width

140 mm

Height or length

89 mm

Weight

2 g

Inscriptions and markings

Left top corner ripped & missing.

Contextual Information

Aubrey John Akrill BECKLEY, better known as Jack enlisted in the AIF on the 24/06/1915, age 27 years, with the 28th Battalion 2nd Reinforcement. He attained the rank of Sergeant. On the 3/11/1916, while serving in France, Jack was wounded in action, sustaining a gun shot wound to his right thigh. He was admitted to hospital in England, and on the 4/6/1917 he returned to Australia, and was discharged on the 16/07/1917. Jack re-joined on the 30/07/1917 as a clerk in the Home Service, Staff Office for Recruits.

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First World War

Place made

France

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Object’s condition or completeness

Well provenanced

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