Studio portrait of two brothers, 3397 Lance Corporal (LCpl) Frederick Charles Morgan, 1st ...

Accession Number P04782.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
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 two brothers, 3397 Lance Corporal (LCpl) Frederick Charles Morgan, 1st Battalion (left) and 3398 Corporal (Cpl) Walter Victor Morgan, 1st Pioneer Battalion. They both enlisted on the 16 July 1915 and embarked from Sydney on HMAT Themistocles on 5 October 1915. Cpl W V Morgan was admitted to the 40th Stationary Hospital in France with pneumonia on 25 January 1919. He died, aged 27, on 7 February 1919 and is buried in the Ste Marie Cemetery, Le Harve. LCpl F C Morgan returned to Australia on 29 April 1919.

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