Studio portrait of 335 Private (Pte) Frank Thompson, A Company, 19th Battalion, of Oatley, NSW. ...

Accession Number P04688.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Claudio, Jas
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 335 Private (Pte) Frank Thompson, A Company, 19th Battalion, of Oatley, NSW. Pte enlisted on 26 February 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Ceramic on 25 June 1915. He died of sickness on 21 February 1917, in France, aged 26 years. Pte Thompson was awarded the Bronze Medal for Valour (Italy) on 26 May 1917 and the Military Medal (MM) on 26 June 1917.

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