MAKE A MEME View Large Image AWM.H05654.jpeg en Studio portrait of Lieutenant Lt John Rupert Balfe of Brunswick Victoria At the outbreak of war he was a medical student at Melbourne University MU and had served four years with the MU Rifles rising to the rank of 2nd ...
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Keywords: AWM.H05654.jpeg en Studio portrait of Lieutenant Lt John Rupert Balfe of Brunswick Victoria At the outbreak of war he was a medical student at Melbourne University MU and had served four years with the MU Rifles rising to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant He applied for and was granted a commission in the 6th Battalion AIF on 24 August 1914 and embarked at Melbourne on HMAT Hororata on 19 October 1914 Lt Balfe was killed by a shell burst shortly after landing at Gallipoli in the early morning of 25 April 1915 and was buried at Shrapnel Gully He was 25 years of age http //cas awm gov au/item/H05654 Anonymous photographer 1914 PD-Australia watermark History of Australian rules football Images from the Australian War Memorial Black and white photographs Australian military personnel of World War I
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