Studio portrait of four members of the 9th Light Horse Regiment. Identified are: 461 Private ...

Accession Number P05145.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Darge Photographic Company
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made c January 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 four members of the 9th Light Horse Regiment. Identified are: 461 Private (Pte) John Hovenden Newnham (left standing), and 403 Pte Thomas Dickinson (right seated), both of C Company, which embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Karroo on 11 February 1915. Pte Newnham was a farmer before enlisting on 30 October 1914. He returned to Australia on 10 July 1919. Pte Dickinson was also a farmer prior to enlisting on 29 September 1914. He was killed in action on 28 August 1915, at Walker's Ridge, Gallipoli Peninsula, aged 26 years.

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