Studio portrait of 32 Trooper (Tpr) Vernon William Murray, Headquarters, 6th Light Horse ...

Accession Number P04735.008
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made c 1916
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 32 Trooper (Tpr) Vernon William Murray, Headquarters, 6th Light Horse Regiment, of Wagga Wagga, NSW. Tpr Murray enlisted on 14 September 1914 and embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Suevic on 21 December 1914. He was killed in action on 22 May 1915 at Anzac Cove, Turkey, aged 24 years. This image was taken from a collage of the descendants of Benjamin Rixon held at P04735.002.