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World War 1, Europe, HEPPINGSTONE, 1916

1916
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"Treasured" - World War 1 Photo Portraits - Identified
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Studio portrait of George and Claude Heppingstone

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Registration number
cwa-org-32-P1999.39.1a
Item type
Photographs
Themes
War and Conflict
World War 1
Contextual Information

3062 Bombadier Claude Athol Heppingstone of Brunswick Junction enlisted on 7 October 1914 as a Driver with the Divisional Ammunition Column. He departed Fremantle on HMAT A7 Medic on 2 November 1914. He died of wounds at Pozieres France on 23 July 1916 while serving with a Trench Mortar Battery. He is buried in the Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension.
He was a member of Canning's second expedition 1908-10 to equip the Canning Stock Route.

Year
1916
Geotag
-33.252827265267, 115.83886246072

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