Studio portrait of 1210 Private (later Trooper) Raymond John Bloodworth, 6th Light Horse ...

Accession Number P05413.011
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
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 1210 Private (later Trooper) Raymond John Bloodworth, 6th Light Horse Regiment, of Coonamble, NSW. A bank clerk prior to enlistment, he embarked from Sydney on HMAT Suffolk (A23) on 28 July 1915. He was killed in action near Jerusalem, Palestine on 29 November 1917, aged 21. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Jerusalem Memorial, Israel.