Portrait of Second Lieutenant (later Lieutenant Colonel Owen Glendower Howell-Price DSO MC) of ...

Accession Number A05727
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Norman & Co
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made 1914
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Portrait of Second Lieutenant (later Lieutenant Colonel Owen Glendower Howell-Price DSO MC) of the 3rd Battalion at Randwick camp. He subsequently served at Gallipoli where he won the Military Cross and was Mentioned in Despatches. During July and August 1916 he fought at Pozieres and Mouquet Farm in France, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and was again Mentioned in Despatches. He was killed in action near Fleurs, France on 2 November 1916 aged 26 years.