Studio portrait of 965 Trooper (Tpr) William Pickard Waslin, 5th Reinforcements, 7th Light Horse ...

Accession Number P04704.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Tesla Studios
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 965 Trooper (Tpr) William Pickard Waslin, 5th Reinforcements, 7th Light Horse Regiment, of West Bank, Fishlake, England. Tpr Waslin enlisted on 19 January 1915, along with two of his brothers Thomas and Andrew and embarked from Newcastle aboard HMAT Kabinga on 21 May 1915. Tpr Waslin was killed in a trench when a stick bomb exploded at his feet on 11 November 1915 at Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, aged 22 years. At the time of his death his three brothers were also present in the same trench and wrote to their mother about his death.

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