Studio portrait of 1048 Private Sydney Leonard Petterson, 13th Battalion

Accession Number P04531.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made c 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

Studio portrait of 1048 Private (Pte) Sydney Leonard Petterson, 13th Battalion, of Balmain, NSW. Pte Petterson enlisted on 14 November 1914, sailing for service overseas on HMAT A38 Ulysses in December that year. He took part in the landing at Gallipoli and was killed in action on 29 May 1915.