Studio portrait of 57247 Trooper (Tpr) Horace Thomas Dalton, 11th Light Horse Regiment. Tpr ...

Accession Number P00889.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1918
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 57247 Trooper (Tpr) Horace Thomas Dalton, 11th Light Horse Regiment. Tpr Dalton, of Dunwich, Qld, enlisted on 16 May 1918, and embarked for service overseas aboard HMAT Port Sydney (A15) from Sydney on 17 August 1918. After disembarking in Suez, Egypt, Tpr Dalton underwent training at the Australian Light Horse Remount Unit at Moascar, and was later hospitalised due to an ear infection. He returned to Australia on 20 July 1919.