Studio portrait of 2768 Private Sidney James Lauder, 9th Reinforcements, 15th Battalion, aged 18 ...

Accession Number P05138.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales
Date made c August 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 2768 Private Sidney James Lauder, 9th Reinforcements, 15th Battalion, aged 18 years. A telegraph assistant prior to enlisting in Darwin on 29 July 1915, Lauder embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Ayrshire on 1 September 1915. He was killed in action on 30 October 1917 in Belgium and is buried at Aeroplane Cemetery, Ypres.