Studio portrait of 2nd Lieutenant (2nd Lt) John Graham Antill Pockley, 33rd Battalion. A grazier ...

Accession Number H19317
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of 2nd Lieutenant (2nd Lt) John Graham Antill Pockley, 33rd Battalion. A grazier from Yarran Springs, NSW 2nd Lt Pockley originally served as a Private with the Australian Army Medical Corps Hospital Transports. On 24 January 1917 he embarked with the 7th Reinforcements from Sydney on HMAT Anchises. Later promoted to Lieutenant he was killed in action on 30 March 1918 at Hangard Wood, France , aged 26, and was buried nearby. Following the Armistice his grave could not be located and he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. His brother Captain Brian Colden Antill Pockley, Australian Army Medical Corps, was killed in action at Rabaul and was the first Australian officer to be killed in the First World War. (See H19316)