Studio portrait of 20850 Gunner (Gnr) Leonard Howard Neilsen, 12th Australian Field Artillery ...

Accession Number P05301.020
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Sydney Mail
Place made Australia: New South Wales
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 20850 Gunner (Gnr) Leonard Howard Neilsen, 12th Australian Field Artillery Brigade, of Tiaro, Qld. A labourer prior to enlisting on 15 November 1915, Gnr Neilson embarked from Sydney, NSW, aboard HMAT Argyllshire on 11 May 1916. He was killed in action at Dickebusch, Belgium, on 25 September 1917, aged 21.

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